measure word

English

Noun

measure word (plural measure words)

1. A word or morpheme used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns, used especially in Asian languages.

Synonyms

• count word
• counter
• counter word
• counting word
• numeral classifier
• numerary adjunct

Translations

measure word, classifier

• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: သင်္ချာပစ္စည်း (my) (sanghkyapaccany:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 量詞 (zh), 量词 (zh) (liàngcí)

• Dutch: maatwoord n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: laskusana
• French: classificateur (fr) m, compteur (fr) m
• German: Zählwort n
• Hungarian: számlálószó
• Japanese: 助数詞 (ja) (じょすうし, josūshi)
• Khmer: សំខ្យានុគ្រោះ (km) (saŋkyaa nukrʊəh)

• Korean: 수분류사 (subullyusa) (數分類詞), 양수사 (yangsusa)
• Lao: ລັກສະນະນາມ (lak sa na nām)
• Malay: penjodoh bilangan
• Portuguese: classificador numeral m
• Russian: счётное сло́во n (sčótnoje slóvo), счётный су́ффикс m (sčótnyj súffiks)
• Spanish: clasificador m
• Swedish: måttsord n
• Thai: ลักษณนาม (th) (lák-sà-nà-naam)
• Uyghur: مىقدار سۆز‎ (miqdar söz)
• Vietnamese: danh từ chỉ đơn vị (名詞指單位)

See also

• classifier