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第二課 本

中日文化比較

「一張桌子、一把椅子、一隻狗、一匹馬」中文裡的每個名詞該配對

的「單位量詞」不完全相同，這也是許多外國學生在學習中文時常覺得

困難的地方，所以他們經常使用「個」代替大部分的單位量詞。日文有

幾個常見量詞，在中文裡也能看到，例如：個、本、人、匹等等。其

中，中文裡的「本」用來計算書籍，如：一本書，一本雜誌；日文中的

「本」則是用來計算形狀細長的東西，如：一本の鉛筆、一本の傘、一

本の木。

In Chinese, there are a lot of quantifiers for nouns. Nouns such as table,

chair, dog, and horse can be modified with different quantifiers (張、把、

隻、匹) respectively. As a result, Chinese quantifiers can be fairly challeng-

ing for foreign learners, that’s the reason why they generally use 個(ge),
which is very commonly used in day-to-day context, to replace other quantifi-

ers. Some of the quantifiers are shared in Chinese and Japanese. For example,

個、本、人、匹. In Chinese, 本 is used to calculate the amount of books,

magazines and the like. Whereas in Japanese, the same character 本 is used to
quantify something stick-like, such as pencil, umbrella, and tree.

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