量词:事故

yuechu

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Canadian English
大家好!

I was recently looking up the word 事故 in the dictionary and noticed that there are 3 possible classifiers 量词: 桩, 起 and 次. Are all of these common? Which would you say is the most commonly used one?
Thanks!
 
  • I would say 起 is the most commonly used one and 次 is the least commonly used one. 桩 sounds a little bit more formal than the other two, and it may be used more frequently in safety signs and legal contexts. But all three are common.

    BTW, I think you could put "一起事故", "一桩事故" and "一次事故" in Google and check out the number of results to get a rough idea about how commonly used are day. Not much help on the exact differences between them though.
     
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    when using 起 and 桩, usually we focus on the 事故, when using 次, usually what we want to emphasize the number of times.
     
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