Tham khảo tài liệu 'a comprehensive grammars phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Numerals and Measures 27 ST K rH if A 05 if A èr èr I dé sì èr sì I dé bã sì wú I dé èrshí Two twos are four. Two fours are eight. Four fives are twenty. AL -A A ra A AA AH sãn qĩ I èrshí yĩ liù bã I sìshí bã jiủ jiú I bãshí yĩ Three sevens are twenty-one. Six eights are forty-eight. Nine nines are eighty one. MEASURE WORDS Chinese like other languages has standard measure words relating to distance weight volume etc. or to such universal notions as parts groups or packages yĩ bàng mógu mw bàng a pound of mushrooms pound in weight AS S. yT piàn mỉànbão mw A piàn a slice of bread piece slice However Chinese is unique in that all nouns when occurring with a number or demonstrative 17 generally incorporate a measure whether or not there is any notion of measuring A A yĩ bẽn shũ mw A ben copy a book yi zhang zhuozi mw zhang spread a table In what follows we will therefore distinguish between standard measure words and classifying measure words or classifiers . STANDARD MEASURES Standard measure words express universally accepted concepts of measurement on the one hand and packaging grouping and partitioning on the other. For example National or international measures - AAKAiA AAAơtỉiĩẳ yT yĩnglí lù yĩ pĩntuõ píjiủ èrshí gõngshẽng qìyóu liáng gõngjĩn píngguò săn pingfang mĩ dìtăn a mile a pint of beer 20 litres of petrol 2 kilos of apples 3 square metres of carpet 17 Virtually all the examples we will cite in the following sections will use the numeral yi one . When unstressed yĩ has the meaning a n and our translations will reflect this. 28 Chinese A Comprehensive Grammar Others include length . Ãlẵ gỗngli kilometre SR gõngchĩ mí metre . gongfen limi centimetre H ma yard yingchi foot yĩngcùn inch R chi Chinese foot Ý cùn Chinese inch weight . Mĩ dũn ton fr jin catty M liăng tael SrJ àngsĩ ounce ĩĩ kè gram háokè milligram volume ứl Ế jialun gallon lifang ml cubic metre area . Ãíí gõngqỉng hectare yĩngmủ acre a mũ Chinese acre ÍT dă dozen . .
