HOW MANY  幾個

WHAT NUMBER OF?
Hypernym
  • NUMBERQUANTITY when COUNTED. [THE DEFINITIONS IN THIS FIELD REMAIN CIRCULAR ON MANY LEVELS AND NEED TO BE CAREFULLY REVISED IN COLLABORATION WITH KARINE CHEMLA.]
    • QUANTITYDEGREE of being MANY OR FEW that CAN be MEASURED OR COUNTED.
      • DEGREEFEATURE of MORE or LESS.
        • FEATUREABSTRACT OBJECT a THING is SAID to BE OR to HAVE....
Modern Chinese Criteria
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／ LU JIANMING

    Words

    幾  jǐ MC: kj+jX OC: kɯlʔ 11 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • npro.adNrhetoricalhow many N(on the face of the earth...)?CH
    • npro.adNquestionhow many, how much?
    • v[adN]N=humhow many [persons]
    • vadV{NUM}.adNhow many?
    几何  jǐ hé OC: krilʔ ɡlaal MC: ki ɦɑ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • PPpostNhow many?
    多小  duō xiǎo OC: k-laal smewʔ MC: tɑ siɛu 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPimany or few > be how many
    幾個  jǐ gè OC: kɯlʔ kaals MC: kɨi kɑ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPpro.adVsubjecthow many (persons/items)?
    幾箇  jǐ gè OC: kɯlʔ kaals MC: kɨi kɑ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • PPadVsubjecthow many (persons, things)

    Existing SW for

    Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: