Counting words

1 ichi

2 ni

3 san

4 shi or, yon

5 go

6 roku

7 shichi or, nana

8 hachi

9 kyuu or, ku

10 juu

11 juu ichi

Etc. to 19

20 nijuu

Etc. to 90

100 hyaku

> hyaku
> nihyaku
> sambyaku
> yonhyaku
> gohyaku
> roppyaku
> nanahyaku
> happyaku
> Kyuuhyaku

1000 sen
> 1001 = senichi
> 1200 = sen nihyaku
> 1900 = sen kyuuhyaku
> 1800 = sen happyaku
> 1300 = sen sambyaku

Etc. to 9000

10,000 man
> ichi man
> ni man
> san man
> 10,260 = ichi man ni hyaku rokujuu

> 30,451 = san man yonhyaku gojuichi

Etc. to 90,000

Examples:

o Ano hito wa sensei desu.

o Ano onna wa Hagi ni isunde imasu.

o Onna no hitotachi wa Shimonoseki de ikimashita.

o Otoko no hitotachi

Counting people	Nin
(However, one person is hitori, two people are futari) Sannin, gonin, etc. Ima no Zoom ni wa gonin orimasu. (Now in this Zoom meeting there are five people.)
Flat objects (paper)	Mai
Ichimai, nimai, sanmai, etc. Kami (o) nimai kudasai (Please give me two pieces of paper.)
Large animals	Too
Ittoo, nitoo, santoo, etc. Ushi wa santoo orimasu (orimasu = animal is)
Birds	Wa
Ichiwa, niwa, sanwa, etc. Niwatori niwa orimasu. (There are two chickens.)
Small animals	hiki (piki, ppiki)
Ippiki, nihiki, sambiki, yonhiki, gohiki, roppiki, Neko (wa) ippiki orimasu (I have one cat.)
Long, narrow objects	hon (ppon)
Ippon, nihon, sambon, yonhon, gohon, roppon Empitsu roppon irimasu. (I need six pencils.)
Small, round objects	Ko
Ikko, niko, sanko, yonko, etc. Tamago sanko kashite kudasai. (Please lend me three eggs.)
Books	Satsu
Issatsu, nisatsu, sansatsu, Tosho ni wa hon hyaku satsu arimasu. (In the library, 100 books are there.)
Houses, buildings	Ken
Ichiken, niken, sanken Ano machi ni wa tatemono wa yongen arimasu. (In that town there are four buildings.)

Examples:

o Watakushi no sensei wa California ni isunde imasu.

o Ano gakuseitachi wa ojotsu desu ne?

More counting stuff!

For a suit, jacket, set of clothes	Chaku Ittchaku, ni chaku, etc.		(suutsu, sebiro or jaketto)
For a car or machines, furniture, chairs, dresser	Dai Ichi dai, ni dai, etc. Kuruma ga yondai arimasu.
For a pair of socks	Soku kutsushita (socks) issoku, etc.
Hey, we are not done with counting yet! Instead of counting using those words like dai, chaku, mai, hiki, hon, satsu, etc. there is:
Hitotsu futatsu Mittsu Yottsu Itsutsu Muttsu Nanatsu Yattsu kokonotsu too		Used for things only, not people.
Isu ga mittsu arimasu.		(There are three chairs.) (mittsu instead of san dai)
Kodomo wa itsutsu no booru o tsukatte asonde imasu.		(The children are playing with five balls.)
Dakuten (“) and Handakuten (period that looks like a little circle)		(Not on hiragana chart, see Textbook p. 61-63)
The ka, sa, ta, and ha hiragana lines change when these diacritical marks are added.		Ka: ga, gi, gu, ge, go Sa: za, ji, zu, ze, zo Ta: da, ji, zu, de, do Ha: ba, bi, bu, be, bo Or, Ha: pa, pi, pu, pe, po
Note, from our textbook: “The two ji sounds have the same pronunciation but are not interchangeable in the hiragana. For example, the word for time must be written as じかん with the じbut not with the ち”。In fact, the character ち“ is seldom used.” Whew! Got that?
Gliding Sounds
Kyo Vs. Kiyo	Anohito was kiyoo desu. Kyo wa I otenki desu ne.