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Originally Posted by SceptileMaster
Yes it tells me the rules but it doesn't tell which counters use each rule which is what I really need. Finding out the counters themselves isn't really the problem. For example, how would I know whether 一キロ would be read いっきろ or いちきろ without a resource?
Also thanks for the site masaegu.
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Any counter that begins with an unvoiced stop would follow the pattern
いっ for 1
じゅっ for 10
ろっ for 6
はっ for 8
If the counter starts with an "h" follow the rule for 分
Else don't do anything special, e.g. 枚 いちまい、にまい、さんまい、など
一軒＝いっけん
一点＝いってん
一丁＝いっちょう
These rules aren't rocket surgery. There are basically 2-3 patterns, and all counters follow these patterns. Hell, counters are more regular than English verbs. There are exceptions, but you learn them as you go, not by memorizing them all now.
Hell, I probably only know 10–20 counters, and very few of them get rotation in my daily speech. 軒点匹分角画頭本枚杯丁台次時日月年回羽冊組番曲体 are basically the only ones I know. I reverb to the good ol' Yamato counting otherwise: ひ、ふ、み、など.