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34 – Nouns – classifiers
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Classifiers are used with nouns to count things in Vietnamese. The structure is the quantity + classifier + noun. There are many classifiers in Vietnamese, but the 2 that you will use the most are cái + things and con + animal/living things. Example:

Một con vịt
1 classifier duck

hai cái điện thoại di động
2 classifier telephone mobile


Some other useful classifiers: quả + fruit, cuốn sách (book), quyển vở (notebook), tờ báo (magazine, newspaper).