📄️ Common Counters in Japanese
Counting is one of those areas of Japanese where simplicity is thrown out of the window. The Japanese language has what is known as counters, discreet units that are related to an object's size, shape, qualities, abilities etc.
📄️ Days, Weeks, Months & Years
At some point in Japan, you'll be asked some variant of, 'how long have you been here?' Assuming you want to have a conversation with this person, it's useful to know how to express elements of time.
📄️ Expressing Duration
If you want to express the duration of an activity in Japanese, you need to use nouns such as 一時間 (one hour). Unlike other expressions of time, these nouns need no particle and usually appear immediately before a verb.
📄️ Frequency
It's easy to express frequency in Japanese using the following construct:
📄️ Telling the Time
If you're ever going to make plans in Japan, you're going to need to know how to tell the time.
📄️ Using 人 to Count People
When counting people, you do so with the counter 人. Counting people is pretty easy but there are two irregular counters you must remember. See the table below: