List of Japanese counter words


What are the essential Japanese counter words?

For example -dai for machines, -mai for papers and stuff like that.

  * What else to expect/know? 

Thank you




The [article at Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counter_word)
covers the common ones as well as a decent number of extended ones, and lists
the exceptions for days, people, etc. as well as rendaku and number word
changes (e.g. 300->san*bya*ku, 4:00-> *yo*ji).

