Word
dishful
一碟之量
the quantity that a dish will hold
- 1.
As much as a dish will hold.
一盘的量
一盘的量；一碟；一碟量
In use
She added a dishful of sugar to the cake batter.
The recipe calls for two dishfuls of chopped vegetables.
He ate a whole dishful of ice cream in one sitting.
a dishful of [noun]
She ate a dishful of rice.
她吃了一碟米饭。
[number] dishfuls of [noun]
复数形式为 dishfuls。
He added two dishfuls of sugar.
他加了两碟糖。
[verb] a dishful
dishful 用作可数名词。
Please fill a dishful for the guest.
请给客人盛一碟。
[verb] [number] dishfuls
They served three dishfuls of soup.
他们上了三碟汤。
Common mistakes
I ate two dishful of rice.I ate two dishfuls of rice.
This is a pluralization error. Compound nouns ending in '-ful' form their plural by adding '-s' to the end of the compound, not to the base noun 'dish'. Chinese lacks plural marking, so learners often omit the plural suffix or incorrectly pluralize the first part.
He gave me a dishful rice.He gave me a dishful of rice.
This is a preposition error. The noun 'dishful' requires the preposition 'of' to connect the container to its contents, as in 'a dishful of something'. Chinese learners may omit 'of' due to direct translation from Chinese, where a possessive or measure word structure is used instead.
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Learner notes
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