Does 両目 have a special meaning or is it just a mistake?


Today I found this sentence on my Japanese textbook (みんなの日本語中級I - 本冊 pg. 70)
And it didn't make any sense to me.

> 前から２両目の電車を降りたところで待っています。

I looked for 両目 on [電子辞書](http://jisho.org/) and it says it means both eyes.
Still didn't make any sense to me so I put it in Google Translator and the
result was... well the expected one:

> We are waiting in the place where I got off the train two eyes from the
> front.

Does this have any special meaning (I mean the use of 両目) or is it just that
there is a mistake on the textbook and it should just be:

前から２目の電車を降りたところで待っています。

Which means the 2nd train.




Here you have the ordinal ２, plus the counter 両{りょう}, which is used to count
the cars on a train. The combination ２両 would mean "two [train] cars".

When you add the ordinal suffix 目{め} to ２両, it changes from "two cars" to "the
second car". So, the whole phrase 前から２両目 really means the second car from the
front (of the train).

Your sentence does _not_ contain the word 両目{りょうめ} meaning "both eyes".




Here you have the ordinal ２, plus the counter 両{りょう}, which is used to count
the cars on a train. The combination ２両 would mean "two [train] cars".

When you add the ordinal suffix 目{め} to ２両, it changes from "two cars" to "the
second car". So, the whole phrase 前から２両目 really means the second car from the
front (of the train).

Your sentence does _not_ contain the word 両目{りょうめ} meaning "both eyes".

