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 protte a 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 protte heap 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 bytsje bit 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.