いっぱい and いっぽん

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kohlrak

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• 27 Jul 2006

• #1

The book says:

ocha o ippai a cup of tea
koohii o ippai a cup of coffee
wain o ippon a bottle of wine
biiru o ippon a bottle of beer

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Until wain and biiru, it makes no mention of ippon. In fact, i can't find a litteral translation of ippon that i can even logically attribute with any liquids. Previously it talks about ippai and hitobin... And i don't see an examble of hitobin either. Hitobin i don't need an example of since i just replace ippai with it to say "bottle" instead of "glass" or "cup." But why ippon instead of ippai, and if i want to say a bottle of wine do i have to change hitobin in any way to say glass or bottle... (I hate how it babies us instead of giving literal translations... and it's in romaji...)

 

KrazyKat

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• 27 Jul 2006

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One bottle is 一本(いっぽん)
Hopefully that should make it all clear now.

 

leonmarino

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• 27 Jul 2006

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Ippon いっぽん is used to denote one long object. It might mean a pen, bottle or a stick.

Hitobin １びん means one bottle => bin means bottle, and hito is to denote one object..

Now I'm thinking of it, the way to count in Japanese has quite a few exceptions that I cannot explain in a few minutes!! I will come back on this when I have more time!!

 

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kohlrak

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• 27 Jul 2006

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• #4

So in other words, hitobin and ippon are interchangeable when asking for a bottle of beer?

 

KrazyKat

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• 27 Jul 2006

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Yahoo seaches give ビールを一本 as much more common than any varieties of ビールを一瓶

 

Damicci

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• 27 Jul 2006

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ここにすしのレストランで「～を一本」を使います。

 

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kohlrak

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• 27 Jul 2006

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thank you!

 

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koruri

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• 27 Jul 2006

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ちょっと、付け加え（つけくわえ）。
I want to give you a little addition.
(I have a little something to add.)

「一瓶（ひとびん） 」は使（つか）うかもしれませんが、「二瓶」や「三瓶」という言い方は聞（き）いたことがありません。
I might say "hito-bin" but I've never said or heard the word 、「二瓶」or 「三瓶」,,


「一本（いっぽん） 、二本（にほん） 、三本（さんぼん） 、、、、」を使った方（ほう）が良いと思います。
I'll recommend you to use "～本".