 The count-mass distinction tracks closely in most instances with the intuitive difference between stuff and things we appealed to at the beginning, but not always. There are some differences in English that don’t seem systematic For example, “vehicle” and “vegetable” are count nouns, which makes sense because car and carrot are. But fruit and furniture are mass nouns although the things they refer to, apples and chairs, are referred to by more specific count nouns. And languages differ—as mentioned before, English speakers count their vegetables, but German speakers ask how much Gemuse you want, even though “Gemuse” refers to the same things as “vegetable”. And in Italian both “frutta” and “verdura” are mass nouns.