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Re:The Eternal Sloptember by card_zero on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:33AM (#48264683)
I guess the measure word works equivalently to a unit of measurement, then. One bottle of beer, one sack of sugar, one 条 of pant.
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Re:The Eternal Sloptember by thaumasiotes on Monday May 25, 2026 @05:45AM (#48265071)
Correct. In Chinese all nouns require them.

(It's not the case, however, that all measure words require nouns. 天 ("day") and 年 ("year") are measure words that are almost always used on their own. There might be an implicit notion of "one day of time" or similar.)

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