量词：事故

[yuechu]

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!

 

[tess900722]

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.

 

[wu78754]

一起事故 and 一桩事故 - one accident
一次事故 - one time accident

 

[SuperXW]

Another common classifier for 事故: 场. 一场事故 sounds to have wider and more serious consequence.

 

[yuechu]

Thanks, everyone, for your help!

 

[Fantasys]

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.