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-heya rooms

-kire slices, cuts, pieces

-kumi groups, sets (of
matched objects)

-ma rooms

-sara platefuls

-saji spoonfuls

-soroe sets

-taba bunches

-tsuki months (=-kagetsu
used with primary
numerals)

Hitoban Bosuton no hoteru ni tomatta.
I stayed at a hotel in Boston for one night.

Kono uchi ni wa shinshitsu ga futama shika nai.
This house only has two bedrooms.

6.11. Counting people

There are some irregularities in the set of numbers used to

count people. Most of the numbers are made up of primary
numbers + the counter -nin, but there are different forms for

1, 2, and 4. (The expected forms *ichi-nin, *ni-nin do occur in
some compounds, for example, ichinin-mae ‘food order for

one person.’)

hitori 1 person