5.2. COUNTERS 247
- People
It should be noted that there are special pronunciations for 1 person and
2 people, using the reading , but that 3 and up is all counted using the
pronunciation :
An example sentence would be:”Are those two (people) over there a (married) couple?”The polite counter for people, as used by for instance waiters or re-ceptionists, is
, with the very polite counter being
. However, don’t
use these counters yourself unless you find yourself serving patrons in a
restaurant or something similar. For normal counting of people, stick with
.
5.2.4 Occurrences and ranking
- Number of times, degrees
As a counter for occurences, this counter is principally used only for count-
ing once, twice and thrice. For something that occurs more than three
times,
is used instead.
Aside from being used for occurrence, is also used to count de-
grees Celsius, and geometric degrees (such as a 90 degree angle, or GPS
degrees). The pronunciations are: