A Word a Day — ‘Pair’
Posted on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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The last number we’ll be learning for a long time is not strictly a number - it’s more similar in meaning to ‘a pair’.
In English we have as special word for a group of two things - pair. A similar concept applies to Mandarin Chinese, with a few major differences. While only things that are intrinsically in twos are referred to as ‘a pair’ in English, in Chinese any two items are referred to as a pair. In fact the word for two is rarely used, except when counting or referring to individual digits as you would when reading a phone number.
Next, we’ll be learning how to combine digits into real world numbers. You’ll move from saying ‘four zero three two’, to ‘four thousand and thirty two’.
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