第三十三天

[nnozomi]

Measure word 几（个） for relatively small quantities of things
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Measure_words_in_quantity_questions

几个 or 几(all the other six zillion counters, some of which make more sense than others)

Guardian:
几点了？ what time is it? (Zhao Yunlan asks this quite often, but all the other Guardian 几 I can find are "some ~" rather than questions.)

My practice:
你到底有几双鞋子？
为了这个工作需要几个人？
这个动物园有几只水豚？ (had to look that one up)

Comments

[trobadora]

Guardian example from episode 1 - at least if I'm reading it correctly, the first 几 is "some" but the second should be "how many":

SW： 地星人偷上地面作乱，是本使疏忽。

ZYL: 哪里话？ 您这是想让我们几个长长见识，毕竟在这个世上能见到几个地星人啊？

[nnozomi]

Guardian example from episode 1
真的呀！ I think I might have skipped this one because I found it difficult, but you're right. (I love Zhao Yunlan's ability to use 您 and still be effortlessly rude.)

[trobadora]

Zhao Yunlan is SO rude in that scene! He's really lucky Shen Wei already likes him, LOL.

[nnozomi]

Zhao Yunlan is SO rude in that scene! He's really lucky Shen Wei already likes him, LOL.
Seriously. (Also can you imagine how hard Chu Shuzhi must have been gritting his teeth...)

[presumenothing]

猜一猜，周深去年出了几首新歌？

（答：47首）（哇噻）

Anyway I feel like there's no real difference between this and using it in statements – it's kinda the rest of the sentence that makes it a question anyway, the 几 phrase itself is the same.

And just to point out something that isn't apparent coming from an English perspective: 几 is (as illustrated by Zhao Yunlan above) also used in asking about dates and times, i.e. 几月几日 etc.

[nnozomi]

47首，他太努力了，一周一首歌？！（一周深47首歌...)

几 is (as illustrated by Zhao Yunlan above) also used in asking about dates and times, i.e. 几月几日 etc.
对啊，谢谢。 (I should put more information/look things up better in the top post, rather than relying on you and other commenters to come up with all these things. But you do it so well ;) )