ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how to count and describe quantity and how to express the speaker's attitude toward quantity, as well as how to use relative quantity expressions such as many and few. Japanese has two numeral systems: the Sino-Japanese and the native. The numbers in the Sino-Japanese system are the most basic numbers. For instance, when counting upward, the Sino-Japanese options are preferred, but when counting downward, the native options are preferred. The chapter presents two basic patterns of quantifiers are: a quantifier, without a particle, appearing after the noun phrase it quantifies; and a quantifier followed by the particle no appearing before a noun. It also presents two different patterns are: post-nominal pattern, and pre-nominal pattern. Grammar points are followed by contextualized examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning.
