-- items of clothing -- people (polite) -- boats and ships -- houses -- vehicles (cars, airplanes) and machinery (incl.

ncl. computers) -- bunches of Welsh onions, green onions; a column (in a newspaper) -- buildings -- 'things' in general, can be used if you're not sure which specific counting word to use. -- trees -- lessons -- books -- paper -- things with long handles (writing instruments, shovels, swords, and rifles), and by extension, knives and pistols -- literal meaning: line. things aligned in a row (gimbap, desks, chairs) -- gloves and socks -- animals -- people (informal) -- uncut fabric -- Chinese cabbages -- pennies -- years (with Native Korean cardinals) -- years (with Sino-Korean cardinals) -- picked flowers, bunches of grapes, bunches of bananas -- grains of rice (not cooked), stones -- letters, telegrams, telephone calls, and e-mail -- watermelons Some nouns can also function as counter words: -- bottles -- floors (of a building), layers -- bowls -- songs -- cups and glasses -- phrases, joints, and musical measures -- people (informal) -- containers, buckets Some words are used for counting in multiples: -- one hundred dried persimmons/garlic -- twenty dried pollacks -- thirty eggs -- two fish (typically mackerels or yellow croakers) / -- dozen -- one hundred sheets of lavers