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何人 [spec1]
なんにん [spec1]
1. [n]
▶ how many people
▶ a number of people



History:
14. A 2018-06-05 23:19:45  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
OK, I yield. I'm going to link two sentences to it; one for each non-sense.
  Diff:
@@ -15,4 +14,0 @@
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<s_inf>esp. 何人も and 何人か</s_inf>
13. A* 2018-06-05 19:52:24  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I prefer having separate [exp] entries for constructions like 何人か. To me, that's clearer.
I don't think we have to worry about creating a bunch more 何[counter]か entries when we don't have corresponding 何[counter] entries. No ref (including us) has entries for 何匹, 何本, etc.
But if we are keeping this gloss, I think GG5's approach is best - one sense rather than two.
12. A* 2018-06-05 03:36:19  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
It's a grammar point, but the meaning of the word does change as a result of affixing か/も and both daijr and GG5 
explicitly mention it. I don't think it's reasonable to expect dictionary users to understand that a word with "how 
many people" as the only gloss could ever come to mean "a number of people", regardless of what particle might follow. 
I don't think we should have separate entries for 何人も/か because then we might as well add 何匹も/か, 何本も/か, etc. 
as well. (I also don't think we really need the なんびとも or the なんにんか entries). 
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I don't think "a number of people" absolutely has to be its own sense though, I'd be happy to do what GG5 does.
11. A* 2018-06-05 02:21:17  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
A few points:
(a) we have a long-term 何人か/なんにんか entry already, with 66 sentences indexed to it
(b) since we already have a 何人も/なにびとも, etc. entry, I feel it's quite appropriate to cover the 何人も/なんにんも case as well. Otherwise people who are not yet up to unpacking the grammar will be thrown by something like この街は何人もの著名人を生み出した.
I'm guessing that's why GG5 included it, and I think we should too, either as a sense here or in a separate 何人も entry.
10. A* 2018-06-04 10:28:20  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
何[counter]か/も is a grammar point. I don't think we should be including it as a sense.
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