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Japanese Numbers (How To Count), Time, and Days of The Week

The document introduces basic Japanese numbers from 1 to 10, how to combine them to form larger numbers, and how to use numbers to tell time and identify months. It provides the Japanese characters, hiragana, romanji, and English meanings for numbers 1 through 10, and explains that numbers 11 and above are formed by adding the "ten" number before the ones place number. It then shows how to add the characters for "time" and "moon" after numbers to specify hours and months. Finally, it notes that days of the week are less regular but lists them along with some other time-related words.

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Japanese Numbers (How To Count), Time, and Days of The Week

The document introduces basic Japanese numbers from 1 to 10, how to combine them to form larger numbers, and how to use numbers to tell time and identify months. It provides the Japanese characters, hiragana, romanji, and English meanings for numbers 1 through 10, and explains that numbers 11 and above are formed by adding the "ten" number before the ones place number. It then shows how to add the characters for "time" and "moon" after numbers to specify hours and months. Finally, it notes that days of the week are less regular but lists them along with some other time-related words.

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Japanese Numbers (How To Count), Time,

And Days of the Week


Before we get too much further into Japanese grammar and verb conjugation, I thought it would
be a good idea to teach Japanese numbers, time, and the days of the week.

漢字 - ひらがな - ROMAJI(ENGLISH ENGLISH


KANJI HIRAGANA LETTERS) MEANING
一 いち ichi one
二 に ni two
三 さん san three
四 し、 よん shi (yon after 10) four
五 ご go five
六 ろく roku six
七 しち、 なな shichi (nana after 10) seven
八 はち hachi eight
九 きゅう kyuu nine
十 じゅう juu ten
百 ひゃく hyaku hundred

Numbers after 10 are a piece of cake once you know 1 through 10. 11 is simply ten with a one
after it, 十一 (じゅういち, juuichi), 12 - juuni, 13 - juusan, 14 - juuyon, etc. 20 is simply 二十
(にじゅう, nijuu), 21 - nijuuichi, and so forth.

Put these numbers in front of the character for time 時 and you've got the time of the day.

漢字 - ひらがな - ROMAJI(ENGLISH ENGLISH


KANJI HIRAGANA LETTERS) MEANING
一時 いちじ ichiji one o'clock
二時 にじ niji two o'clock
two thirty (半
二時半 にじはん nijihan
means half)

二時四十 にじよんじゅうご 2:45 (分 means


nijiyonjuugofun
五分 ふん minute)
...etc.

Now just put the character for moon 月 after a number and you've got a month.

漢字 - ひらがな - ROMAJI(ENGLISH ENGLISH


KANJI HIRAGANA LETTERS) MEANING
一月 いちがつ ichigatsu January
二月 にがつ nigatsu February
三月 さんがつ sangatsu March
漢字 - ひらがな - ROMAJI(ENGLISH ENGLISH
KANJI HIRAGANA LETTERS) MEANING
四月 しがつ shigatsu April
...etc.

Japanese days of the week don't follow such an easy pattern but here they are anyway along with
some other time-related words.

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