measure words. One can also say "three pails of shells"; in this case the measure word pails accompanies a count noun (shells). The term measure word...

In Japanese, counter words or counters (助数詞, josūshi) are measure words used with numbers to count things, actions, and events. Counters are added directly...

classifier and measure word are frequently used interchangeably—as equivalent to the Chinese term 量词 (量詞) liàngcí, literally 'measure word'. However, the...

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604 and first performed in 1604, according to available...

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and...

class of the noun is understood from the measure word, the noun is often omitted and only the measure word is used, e.g. শুধু একজন থাকবে। Shudhu êk-jôn...

A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard...

part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally...

raf kitap – "seven shelves of book" Collective noun Grammatical number Measure word Nicolas, D. (2008). "Mass nouns and plural logic" (PDF). Linguistics...

technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...