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From :   Kevin Chaput

Date : 2009-10-23 / 01:49AM

Benny,
I am confused on the measure word for cars. Like in this sentence
“Wo xiang zu yi liang che zi” it’s using ‘liang’ but in this one “Wo mai le yi ge xin de che zi” it uses ‘ge’. I thought ‘liang’ is always the measure word.
Please help explain.
xie xie lao shi!

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-10-23 / 04:23PM

Hi Kevin,

Actually, “yi ge che zi” is not correct. It should be “yi liang che zi”

Benny



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