<p>The trick is the omission behind (again).<br>
It is the <strong>objective</strong> that is omitted, not the MW words.</p>

<p>The complete words are:<br> 
<code>三年(时间)</code>,<code>四周(时间)</code>, etc</p>

<p>As you can see now, there are MW words. Just too obvious to add the objective again.</p>

<p>Another example, after business dinner in CN, people usually ask <code>刚喝了几杯</code>, <br> which means <code>几杯(酒)</code>. But we never say <code>几酒</code>.<br></p>

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Right, agree. For the question, I guess there's no such list of nouns that don't require measure word? I couldn't think of any.
sylvia
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Yup, I think so. Check more detail for this [MW Chinese explanation](http://tiny.cc/rnnjhz). The main difference of MW in cn is that we use it for countable nouns and actions.
Shaw
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Shaw
<p>合球隊有四男四女。 In English: There are four males and four females in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Korfball</a> team.</p>

<p>他昨天那場打得很好，12殺1死8助攻。 In English: He played well in that round, he got 12 kills 1 death and 8 assists yesterday.</p>

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<p>I want to say that 年，月，日，周,时，分，秒 they are do units of time,that is certainly measure word. Although they are also nouns.We can call them nominal measure words. </p>

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月 doesn't count, it requires a measure word!
Curiosity
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<p>Some of the time nouns don't require measure words.</p>

<p>三年，四周，五天，六秒，七日 ...</p>

<p>Are there any more nouns (time nouns or otherwise) that don't require a MW ?</p>

<p>Is there a comprehensive list somewhere ?</p>

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2019-12-10T13:00:46.993Z
Anything that can be used as a measure word can be situationally interpreted as a noun that doesn't require a measure word, e.g. 里, 升, 杯 (A:`你喝了幾杯水？` B:`五杯!` Not: `五個杯子!`)...
dROOOze
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To some extent, i think 年，周，秒，天等等 are measure word
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Nouns that don't require a measure word
# Nouns that don't require a measure word

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-10)

Some of the time nouns don't require measure words.

三年，四周，五天，六秒，七日 ...

Are there any more nouns (time nouns or otherwise) that don't require a MW ?

Is there a comprehensive list somewhere ?

**Tags:** grammar, number, measure-word

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Anything that can be used as a measure word can be situationally interpreted as a noun that doesn't require a measure word, e.g. 里, 升, 杯 (A:`你喝了幾杯水？` B:`五杯!` Not: `五個杯子!`)...  
> **username_2**: To some extent, i think 年，周，秒，天等等 are measure word  

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## 3 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2019-12-10. Score: 3

The trick is the omission behind (again).  
It is the **objective** that is omitted, not the MW words.

The complete words are:  
`三年(时间)`,`四周(时间)`, etc

As you can see now, there are MW words. Just too obvious to add the objective again.

Another example, after business dinner in CN, people usually ask `刚喝了几杯`,   
 which means `几杯(酒)`. But we never say `几酒`.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Right, agree. For the question, I guess there's no such list of nouns that don't require measure word? I couldn't think of any.  
> **username_3**: Yup, I think so. Check more detail for this [MW Chinese explanation](http://tiny.cc/rnnjhz). The main difference of MW in cn is that we use it for countable nouns and actions.  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2019-12-31. Score: 1

合球隊有四男四女。 In English: There are four males and four females in [Korfball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korfball) team.

他昨天那場打得很好，12殺1死8助攻。 In English: He played well in that round, he got 12 kills 1 death and 8 assists yesterday.


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### Answer by username_5 on 2020-01-01. Score: 0

I want to say that 年，月，日，周,时，分，秒 they are do units of time,that is certainly measure word. Although they are also nouns.We can call them nominal measure words.

> **Comments:**
> **username_6**: 月 doesn't count, it requires a measure word!  

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