Question about counter words 개 , 번 and 가지. what am I meant to use these to count?
Please can you give me examples of things you would count with 개 , 번 and 가지?

My book is very vague on these ones. and I am just given

개 items/units, what items? what do they mean by units?
번 times. Do they mean times of day, or maybe times you do something?
가지 kinds. Do they mean types of something ie there are 3 types/kinds of cheese on sale here, or something else?

These one word awnser they have given dont make much sense to me and would really appriciate some proper examples please!

Thanks in advance!

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Question about counter words 개 , 번 and 가지. what am I meant to use these to count?
Please can you give me examples of things you would count with 개 , 번 and 가지?

My book is very vague on these ones. and I am just given 

개 items/units, what items? what do they mean by units?
번 times. Do they mean times of day, or maybe times you do something?
가지 kinds. Do they mean types of something ie there are 3 types/kinds of cheese on sale here, or something else?

These one word awnser they have given dont make much sense to me and would really appriciate some proper examples please!

Thanks in advance!

Answer

개 items/units, what items? what do they mean by units? 
- for example, there are 5 things(item, unit), We say 5 개 in korea. it's 5 units.
There are 1 thing, it's 1 개.

번 times. Do they mean times of day, or maybe times you do something? 
- I hit him one time. it's 1번, i will kiss you 3 times, It's 3번,
There is a 매번, it means everytime.

가지 kinds. Do they mean types of something ie there are 3 types/kinds of cheese on sale here, or something else? 
- That's right whay you written. There are 3 types of candy!!!!

Have a good day! ;)

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