Basic subject verb object

pretzellogic
 December 27, 2011, 08:30 PM posted in General Discussion

Subject + Verb + number + measure word + noun

王老师买四顿饭。

Wáng lǎoshī mǎi sì dǔn fàn

Teacher Wang buys 4 bowls of food.  

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lujiaojie
 December 28, 2011, 02:31 AM

4 bowls of food 

"bowl" as measure word should be “碗wǎn”

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pretzellogic

Thanks lujiaojie. So for dun3, it should be like

我每天吃三顿饭

wo3 mei3tian1 chi1 san1 dun3 fan4

Everyday I eat 3 meals.

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lujiaojie

对！