すうじ (Numbers) 2

Original Posing: October 8th, 2008
Last time we covered 1 – 20, & today we’ll go all the way to 100! The nice part is that counting 20-30, 30-40 etc, uses the same pattern as 10-20.
10 + 1 = 11
juu + ichi = juuichi

2 * 10 = 20
ni * juu = nijuu
20 + 1 = 21
nijuu + ichi = nijuuichi

10. juu じゅう
20. nijuu にじゅう
30. sanjuu さんじゅう
40. yonjuu* よんじゅう
50. gojuu ごじゅう
60. rokujuu ろくじゅう
70. nanajuu* ななじゅう
80. hachijuu はちじゅう
90. kyuujuu きゅうじゅう
100. hyaku ひゃく

** I mentioned before that sometimes you need to use certain pronunciations for certain things. This is one of those times :)
It would be incorrect to say “shijuu” for 40, or “shichijuu” for 70. I’m not sure why that is, but it is :P

This entry was posted on Monday, December 7th, 2009 at 1:03 pm and is filed under 日本. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply