{"id":15578,"date":"2019-12-31T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/the-usage-of-chinese-measure-word-ge-ge-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:36:23","slug":"the-usage-of-chinese-measure-word-ge-ge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/the-usage-of-chinese-measure-word-ge-ge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The usage of Chinese measure word: \u4e2age"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe measure word \u4e2a (ge) is the most common Chinese measure word. It can be used in a pinch for any noun if you can&#39;t think of a more precise measure word. Also, for many nouns, \u4e2a is the only correct measure word.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>General structure<\/strong><br \/>  \tThe general structure for \u4e2a (and measure words in general) is:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \tYou can specify the quantity of any noun with this structure. Note that any time you want to state how many of a noun in Chinese, you probably need a measure word. First get used to doing it with \u4e2a.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>li\u01cengg&egrave;yu&egrave;<br \/>  \t\u4e24\u4e2a\u6708<\/div>\n<div>two months<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Omitting the number<\/strong><br \/>  \tIf the number is one (1), you can omit it and use \u4e2a by itself. This is equivalent to a or an in English, for example in &quot;a person&quot; or &quot;an idiot.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>  \tSome examples of that:  \t<\/p>\n<div>k\u0101ig&egrave;hu&igrave;<br \/>  \t\u5f00\u4e2a\u4f1a<\/div>\n<div>have a meeting&nbsp;<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-360688747\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The measure word \u4e2a (ge) is the most common Chinese measure word. It can be used in a pinch for any noun if you can&#39;t think of a more precise measure word. Also, for many nouns, \u4e2a is the only correct measure word.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1399],"class_list":["post-15578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-measure-words"],"views":176,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}