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Today is september 11, 2022

Let’s begin with numbers. I won’t use any kana for a time, we’ll introduce them later at a slow pace. 

1. The single numbers

   1 = ichi

   2 = ni

   3 = san

   4 = yon (shi)

   5 = go

   6 = roku 

   7 = nana (shichi)

   8 = hachi

   9 = kyuu (ku)

  10 = juu

The words in parentheses are alternative names for those numbers. Sometimes those names are evaded due to the fact that they’re pronounciations for other words regarded as unlucky words, like shi which is the same sound for death and ku which is the same sound for suffering.

2. The teens

These are very simple to work with, and the dynamics to build them are pretty much the same as those of roman numerals. What we do is that we take juu -10- and right after it we place a single number, like this:

11 = juu ichi

12 = juu ni

13 = juu san

14 = juu yon

15 = juu go

16 = juu roku

17 = juu nana

18 = juu hachi

19 = juu kyuu

3. The tens

For these numbers we take a very similar approach to the previous ones, just inverting the order. Like this:

20 = ni juu

30 = san juu

40 = yon juu

50 = go juu

60 = roku juu

70 = nana juu

80 = hachi juu

90 = kyuu juu

4. The hundreds

For 100 we use hyaku, and in order to make bigger numbers from it we just use it in a similar fashion to juu, with some exceptions:

200 = ni hyaku

300 = sanbyaku

400 = yon hyaku

500 = go hyaku

600 = roppyaku

700 = nana hyaku

800 = happyaku

900 = kyu hyaku

5. The thousands

For 1000 we say sen or issen. To build the multiple integers of 1000 we put the name of the integer before sen, with some exceptions:

2000 = ni sen

3000 = san zen

4000 = yon sen

5000 = go sen

6000 = roku sen

7000 = nana sen

8000 = hassen

9000 = kyuu sen

So now, we can build any integer number from 0 to 9999:

46 = yon juu roku

357 =  san byaku go juu nana

7569 = nana sen go hyaku roku juu kyuu

Notice how the name looks like we are adding 7000 + 500 + 60 + 9.

I’m gonna leave it here, today. Hope you may find this useful, and I’ll see you soon :3

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words about words in japanese

I just watched 舟を編む, it was crazy good. I want more animes about dictionaries!!! So anyway I made a vocab list inspired by that anime :) please let me know if there are any mistakes.

言語　「げんご」　language

言語学　「げんごがく」　linguistics

言葉　「ことば」　words

単語　「たんご」　vocabulary

文　「ぶん」　sentence

語彙　「ごい」　vocabulary

辞書　「じしょ」　dictionary

辞典　「じてん」　dictionary

字引　「じびき」　dictionary

（辞書・辞典・字引）を引く　「ひく」　look up in a dictionary

語幹　「ごかん」　word root, stem 

語末　「ごまつ」　ending, suffix

語感　「ごかん」　feeling of a word, nuance

文語　「ぶんご」　literary language

語釈　「ごしゃく」　interpretation of a word

定義　「ていぎ」　definition

語源　「ごげん」　etymology

語学　「ごがく」　language study

語学者　「ごがくしゃ」　linguist

文法　「ぶんぽう」　grammar

古語　「こご」　old, archaic word

古語辞典　「こごじてん」　dictionary of classical japanese

手話　「しゅわ」　sign language

対訳　「たいやく」　dual language book, bilingual book

言葉を大事にする　「ことばをだいじにする」　to take care with your expressions

表現　「ひょうげん」　expression, phrase

dictionaries:

言海　「げんかい」：  the first modern japanese dictionary, written by 大槻文彦　（おおつきふみひこ）　in 1891. meaning “great sea of words” (this was mentioned in 舟を編む!)

広辞苑　「こうじえん」：  the most authoritative single-volume dictionary of　Japanese, literally “wide garden of words”

大辞林　「だいじりん」：  another single-volume dictionary created to　compete with Koujien. Literally “Great forest of words”  

漢和辞典　「かんわじてん」：  kanji dictionary  (general)

⇒大漢和辞典 「だいかんわじてん」　is the most definitive kanji dictionary, with over 50,000 characters, and 530,000 kanji compound words. 

大渡海　「だいとかい」： the fictional dictionary from 舟を編む, literally “great passage”, created to cross the sea of words （言海）

I think Japanese has very pretty dictionary naming practices. Do other languages have this? I’m not sure. 

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