Number

-Now that we've eased into japanese with some familiar words, Lets cover something that everyone is familiar with suuji （すうじ）number . Number are very useful and are easy to remember.

-Here are one through five

Suuji　（すうじ）
Numbers

Ichi　（いち）
One

Ni　（に）
Two

San　(さん）
Three

Yon　（よん）
Four

Go　（ご）
Five

-Now, Here are 6 through 10.

Roku　（ろく）
Six

Shichi　（しち）
Seven

Hachi　（はち）
Eight

Kyuu　（きゅう）
Nine

Juu　（じゅう）
Ten

-To use numbers to their fullest extent in japanese, You'll need to know counters. Counters tell the numbers what kind of thing they are counting. They can be a little confusing, So we'll cover them in a later lesson.

-Some simple counters that don't make us change how the number are said are :

En （えん）
Yen

Nen （ねん）
Year

-See how they are used below.

Go en　（五円）
Five yen

Juu en （十円）
Ten yen

- This is small change though. I yen is only worth about a penny.

San nen　（三年）
Year three

Shichi nen　(七年）
Seven year

-In the phrases below it say "year" first because it is telling the number of the year, Not how many years there are.

-Even if you dont know the corrct counter yet, You should practice counting thing in japanese. Remeber that practice makes perfect, Or at least very good !

-Here are the numbers from 11 to 15, So you can count even higher ! Notice that we're just putting ten before the number we want to say. This works all the way up to 19

Juuichi　（じゅういち）
Eleven


Juuni　（じゅうに）
Twelve

Juusan　（じゅうさん）
Thirteen

Juuyon　（じゅうよん）
Fourteen

Juugo　（じゅうご）
Fiveteen

-I know you can do it !