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la djan cusku di'e
Countability. "How many beers [drinks] have you had?" "How many beers [vats] are in this cellar?" "How many beers [cans] are in the fridge?" All these questions make sense and thus want "xu lo birje".
{xo lo birje}, yes, we all agree about that.
Where counting does not make sense, then "loi birje" is appropriate.
{lo birje} can also be appropriate in some of those cases.
{le botpi cu vasru lo birje}, "the bottle contains some amount
of beer".
Sometimes we do need counting with the collective sense:
{oi mi na ka'e bevri lei bi birje}, "I can't carry the 8 beers!"
I could carry each of them, but not the eight as a whole.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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