“二”和“两”

44sunset
 April 22, 2010, 05:32 AM posted in General Discussion

i'm not able to use these two words correctly.

is  there someone could do me a favor?

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kiwi_0983
 April 28, 2010, 09:15 AM

I just can figure out that we use "两（liang3）"as a single word, just like "两个苹果"

but for "二（er4）"，It's more sticky, we always use in "十二，二十"， we never say "二个" in Chinese.

I hope it can help you

 

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connie
 April 28, 2010, 09:53 AM

We did a Qingwen show about this.

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/two-words-for-2