Let’s talk about time in Japanese

 Let’s talk about time

I already discussed about numbers in my previous blogs, so it will be easy to learn about Time and how to read it.

 じ (Ji)　à is the suffix used to determine the time

                 à literally means ‘Hours’

               いちじ (ichiji)   　　　　        にじ (niji) 　　　　　     さんじ (sanji)

　　　　　                                                                 

            よじ (yoji)  　　　　　        　  ごじ (goji)   　　　　　　ろくじ (rokuji)

　　　　　                                                               

          しちじ (shichiji)　　　　　はちじ (hachiji)  　　　　     くじ (kuji)

　　　                                                                   

　　 じゅうじ (juuji) 　　      じゅういちじ (juuichiji)        じゅうにじ (juuniji)

　　　                                                             

ぷん・ふん (pun・fun) à is the numeral classifier for minute. 1,3,4,6,8 and 10 minutes use ぷんwhile 2,5,7,9 areふん. 

Minute	ふん・ぷん	Hiragana
1 minute	いっぷん	Ippun
2 minutes	にふん	Nifun
3 minutes	さんぷん	Sanpun
4 minutes	よんぷん	yonpun
5 minutes	ごふん	Gofun
6 minutes	ろっぷん	Roppun
7 minutes	ななふん	Nanafun
8 minutes	はっぷん	Happun
9 minutes	きゅうふん	Kyuufun
10 minutes	じゅっぷん	Juppun
11 minutes	じゅういっぷん	Juuippun
20 minutes	にじゅっぷん	Nijuppun
30 minutes	さんじゅっぷん	Sanjuppun
40 minutes	よんじゅっぷん	Yonjuppun
50 minutes	ごじゅっぷん	Gojuppun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

びょう (byou) à numeral classifier for seconds. For example, 1:45:20. It will written as いちじ：よんぷん：にじゅうびょう. 

Note: I will not use Kanji as I haven't discuss it yet. 

Example: 

1.       1. なんじですか？ à what time is it?

Answer: 12:45 – じゅうにじ:よんじゅうごふん

       2. なんじですか？ à what time is it?

Answer: 9:10 – くじ:じゅっぷん

.          3. なんじですか？ à what time is it?

Answer: 4:30 – よじ:さんじゅっぷん　(よじ:はん)　

.        4. なんじですか？ à what time is it?

Answer: 6:50 – ろくじ:ごじゅっぷん

.         5. なんじですか？ à what time is it?

Answer: 3:40 – さんじ:よんじゅっぷん

That's all for today. 

This is Ringo.

If you want to learn my previous post, you can check it through the link below: 

>> Basic greetings in Hiragana

>> Summary - June


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