Classifiers

Question 1

norm

Answer 1

Classifier:

1) rectangular & round things in general
2) birds, fowl, turtles
3) time words (e.g, day, week, month)
4) places (e.g., villages, towns, provinces, countries)
5) some fruits & vegetables, flowers
6) souls, illnesses, dreams

Question 2

dauh

Answer 2

Classifier:

people, most animals, fish (including eels), doors. Usg: Although laanh is considered to be more polite for people, dauh is used more frequently with no sense of impoliteness.

Question 3

Classifier

weic

Answer 3

Classifier:

for people.
Usg: Lit., very formal. From CHINESE

Question 4

diuh

Answer 4

Classifier:

for long, narrow objects (e.i. trees, trails, rivers, snakes, stalks, strands of hair or thread, ropes, bars or ingots of silver).

Question 5

zungh

Answer 5

Classifier:

plants or clumps of plants, vines, bushes, hanging clusters or stalks of bananas, some trees.

Question 6

laanh

Answer 6

Classifier:

for people in general. Usg. More polite than dauh, but dauh is used much more frequently with no sense of impoliteness.

e.i. laanh tengx laanh - to help each other

Question 7

dorv

Answer 7

Classifier:

1) heads of grain, clusters and clouds. 2) girls {called kuaa “flowers”. 3) large untrimmed branches. After branches are cleaned of their twigs and leaves the classifier is diuh.

Question 8

nquuav

Answer 8

Classifier:

Small branches or twigs on a larger branch.

Usg. After branches are cleaned of twigs and leaves, the classifier is diuh

Question 9

poux

Answer 9

Classifier:

ships, boats, airplanes, scissors, pliers, the liver, decks of cards.