User:DCDuring/English measure and count words
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- Measure word on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Classifiers
editMeasure words
editUnitizers
edit- grains (of, eg, rice, sand)
- items
- pieces
- pages
- sheets
- leaves (of, eg, lettuce)
- pairs (of, eg, shoes, glasses/spectacle, pants)
Containers
editStandard measures
edit- feet, inches, miles, parsecs, etc (length)
- square feet, hectares (area)
- cubic feet, gallons, etc (volume)
- pounds, grams, megatons(?), etc (weight)
- amperes, volts, ohms