The noun in a measure noun construction appears in the singular. The example below also shows that it does not determine agreement on the verb:

Some nouns can be used either in a quantificational or a referential partitive construction. The noun in prottea lot is mostly used in partitive measure noun constructions, in which it occurs in the singular and in which it fails to determine the number of the construction as a whole:

Occasionally, it is used in a referential or individuated partitive construction, as in the following example:

The referentiality of the construction is clear from the plurality of the partitive measure noun and from the fact that the partitive noun determines the number of the construction as a whole. The two constructions can also be told apart by the fact that the measure noun construction resists the use of the demonstrative:

In the referential construction, the noun protteheap has its literal meaning of a disorderly mass of things. Therefore, its co-occurrence with a content noun denoting not a thing but a person entails that it must have been used in a measure noun construction, not in a referential noun construction.

Similarly, the noun bytsjebit is ambiguous between a referential and a measure noun reading. In its referential reading, it may be pluralised:

In its referential reading, it determines agreement on the verb:

In its referential reading, it cannot combine with a personal antecedent:

In its referential reading, the noun bytsje may be modified by a quantifier:

In its measure noun reading, all these properties are reversed.