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Numerical Classifiers (3)

Many thanks to Philip for posting this popular children's poem for learning measure words.
Please post to the forum for corrections and better examples - it would also be nice if someone fluent would volunteer to record this poem for me to publish!

一間屋
兩塊餅
三把遮仔
四副眼鏡
五頂小帽
六架車
七隻兔仔
八條瓜
重有九朵小紅花
十個好朋笑哈哈
jat1 gaan1 uk1
loeng5 faai3 beng2
saam1 baa2 ze1 zai2
sei3 fu3 ngaan5 geng2
ng5 deng2 siu2 mou2
luk6 gaa3 ce1
cat1 zek3 tou3 zai2
baat3 tiu4 gwa1
zung6 jau5 gau2 do2 siu2 hung4 faa1
sap6 go2 hou2 paang4 jau5 siu3 haa1 haa1
One house
Two pieces of cake
three umbrellas
four pair of glasses
five little hats
six cars
seven bunny rabbits
eight melons
and then, nine little red flowers
10 good friends laughing, ha ha

  

 

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