One of the most difficult things to master in a foreign language: cases where the target language uses multiple words (subcategories) for a concept for which your previous languages only have one word. You're simply not used to parse reality into these new subcategories.
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Also birds and bunnies are a distinct category within animals, so while there's an animal counter, birds and bunnies have their own specific counter. Bunnies are a type of bird
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English has it too but only for plural objects. A school of fish, a murder of crows... etc.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names#Usage_of_collective_nouns …
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my prefered eating utensil.
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So when counting chop sticks do you count the individual sticks or the pairs of sticks?
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