counters for weight?


After looking online, I found a counter supposedly for grams: 匁(monme). Is
this right? Also, would I just use it with the noun + particle + counter +
verb form? Like 食べ物の一千匁をもって来る.




匁 is an old Japanese unit for weight and it's approximately equal to 3.75 g.
See: [Japanese units of
measurement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement).
It's almost never used today, and you can probably forget it for now.

To refer to grams, you have to say グラム, which is just a transliteration of
'gram'. Actually there is a kanji for 'gram', which is
[瓦](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%93%A6). But this is also almost never
used in modern Japanese, and you should not use this.

When you want to use の, the correct syntax is `number + unit + の + object`
(e.g., 5冊の本, 3人の先生). The correct sentence would be:

> 1000グラムの食べ物を持ってくる。  
>  I bring 1000 grams of food.

Alternatively you can avoid using の and say:

> 食べ物を1000グラム持ってくる。

See the discussion here: [How to list numbers of
things](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/17816/5010)

(I used Arabic numerals which are usually preferred in horizontal writings)




匁 is an old Japanese unit for weight and it's approximately equal to 3.75 g.
See: [Japanese units of
measurement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement).
It's almost never used today, and you can probably forget it for now.

To refer to grams, you have to say グラム, which is just a transliteration of
'gram'. Actually there is a kanji for 'gram', which is
[瓦](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%93%A6). But this is also almost never
used in modern Japanese, and you should not use this.

When you want to use の, the correct syntax is `number + unit + の + object`
(e.g., 5冊の本, 3人の先生). The correct sentence would be:

> 1000グラムの食べ物を持ってくる。  
>  I bring 1000 grams of food.

Alternatively you can avoid using の and say:

> 食べ物を1000グラム持ってくる。

See the discussion here: [How to list numbers of
things](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/17816/5010)

(I used Arabic numerals which are usually preferred in horizontal writings)

