次 counts how many times something happens. After a verb it says how often (去过两次, “have been twice”); before a noun it counts events such as a trip, a chance or an exam. 第一次 is “the first time”.
- 一次机会one chance
- 第一次the first time
- 去过三次have been three times
49 nouns that take 次
Most common first比赛competition (sports etc); match结婚to marry; to get married约会appointment; engagement检查inspection; to examine经历experience; to experience见面to meet; to see each other战争war; conflict失败to be defeated; to lose演出to act (in a play); to perform晚餐evening meal; dinner婚姻marriage; matrimony旅行to travel; journey; trip尝试to try; to attempt谈话to talk (with sb); to have a conversation战斗to fight; to engage in combat晚饭evening meal; dinner事故accident午餐lunch; luncheon午饭lunch早餐breakfast实验experiment; test考试to take an exam; exam试验experiment; test会见to meet with (sb who is paying a visit)买卖buying and selling; business选举to elect; election结合to combine; to link早饭breakfast访问to visit; to call on感冒to catch cold; (common) cold争论to argue; to debate批评to criticize; criticism解放to liberate; to emancipate辩论debate; argument革命to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution集会to gather; assembly测验test; to test展览to put on display; to exhibit教学teaching; instruction复习to review; revision劳动work; toil改革reform; to reform班机airliner; (regular) flight招待会a reception会谈talks; discussions动员to mobilize; mobilization游览to go sightseeing; to tour会话(language learning) conversation; dialog座谈to have an informal discussion
More measure words
The nouns come from the measure-word notes in CC-CEDICT, ordered by how often each word appears in film and TV subtitles. Many nouns take more than one measure word, and 个 often works in casual speech.
Search measurements
Beam preview · 15-second idle timeout · No prewarming. Total time includes the network and any container startup. “First search” identifies a new Go process; it is not a separate measurement of Beam’s startup time.