कप / गिलास / किलो

Cups, Glasses and Kilos

Level 1Sounds Like kapa, gilāsa ra kilō

Measuring words sit between the number and the thing being measured.

How It Works

To order or buy something by amount, name the amount first.

English uses of between the measure and the thing. Nepali uses nothing. The words simply follow each other.

The measuring word stays the same when the number grows. Say दुई कप चिया, not दुई कपहरू चिया.

Use कति to ask how much: कति किलो? means how many kilos? You will hear it at the market and in a tea shop.

एक कप चिया दिनुहोस्।
Please give me a cup of tea.
एक कप names the amount, and चिया follows.
मलाई दुई गिलास पानी चाहिन्छ।
I need two glasses of water.
दुई गिलास stands before पानी.
म तीन किलो चामल किन्छु।
I buy three kilos of rice.
तीन किलो comes before चामल.
तपाईं कति किलो आलु किन्नुहुन्छ?
How many kilos of potatoes do you buy?
कति किलो asks for the amount.
उहाँ एक कप कफी पिउनुहुन्छ।
She drinks a cup of coffee.
The pattern works the same way with a verb.

Adding को between the measure and the thing.
एक कपको चिया दिनुहोस्।
एक कप चिया दिनुहोस्।
Nepali puts no word between the measure and the thing.

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कप / गिलास / किलोLevel 1Cups, Glasses and Kilos

Units such as कप and किलो work like counters.

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