Vietnamese Classifiers
Written By: Jonathan on October 13, 2009
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I need some help from my Vietnamese readers. I am trying to get together a list of classifiers in Vietnamese. Below is what i have so far, am I missing any common ones? I’m gonna have a couple more posts like this as time goes on and I try to hone some parts of my learning process.
- con – animals, children
- quả – spherical things , fruits (singular)
- trái – fruit (multiple)
- cái – inanimate objects (like chair, table, cup, etc)
- chíêc – inanimate objects (shoe, hat, watch, etc)
- cây – plants, trees
- quyển and cuốn – books
- ngôi – houses and short buildings (ngôi nhà)
- tờ – sheets of things (like sheet of paper or newspaper)
- hình – shapes








