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- "Kiom da supo vi havas?"
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In this case, you are not counting the soup---you are counting the container which holds the soup. :)
Here, "soup" is an uncountable object---what do it mean to have one soup? Three soups? 19.21 soups? We measure soup by its container, but then we are counting containers which happen to be filled with soup---we are not counting the actual soup itself! This is the same for anything that takes a measure word (for example, how much rice vs. how many grains of rice; I have three sticks of chalk (how many, countable), not three chalks (how much, uncountable); etc.). I hope that helped!
But Kiryo---from a quick Google search, I don't think Esperanto makes this distinction, but it would be nice if someone could answer this definitively.
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I wrote "How much soup are you having?", which was marked wrong.
Can "havas" mean "have" in the sense of consumption (of food or drink) as well as possession?