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07-17-2010, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by live2love View Post
hi there,

I want to write "there are over 1000 beaches in Japan" in Japanese but i don't know what the counter for beaches is. Could someone please tell me. thanks. :]
筆(ひつ) is a counter for plots of land (though I've never used it), so I'm guessing
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日本では海辺が1000筆以上あります。
Japanese counter word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think that counter is rare; I wonder what a native who doesn't know it would use. 個 perhaps? It's a generic counter. Or maybe just no counter? 1000以上?

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