What Japanese counter word is used for multiple origami objects...such as 1000 cranes?
Japanese doesn't use counter / measure words, but rather other grammatical particles. Only Chinese uses counter / measure words.
1,000 cranes is counted using the bird counter (there's one specifically for birds or rabbits) so it's sen-ba-tsuru. It would depend on what you've made in origami. The most general counter would probably be -ko. one origami work ikko two niko three sanko four yonko five goko six rokko seven nanako eight hakko nine kyuuko ten jikko I think you could use it for almost anything that you could make in origami, though, (like senbatsuru) there could be a more specific counter to use depending on what you made, but there are so many counter words. If it's something flat, or you wanted to count origami paper, then it's -mai If it's a long slender work of origami -hon
