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question regarding age in japanese
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by Freedom-Justice
on 2005-04-11 12:01:05
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well i always forget to ask my sensei this but seventeen is jyu-nanasai like 7 minutes is nanafun but 8 minutes is happun so eighteen years old is? cuz jyu-hachisai sounds ...weird :\ any1 knows?
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Re: question regarding age in japanese
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Re: question regarding age in japanese
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by Freedom-Justice
on 2005-04-15 07:14:31
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domo
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Re: question regarding age in japanese
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jyu-hachi is the number 18, so, jyu-hachisai is prabably more "formal" but, jyu-hassai would also work. P.S.-- some of the higher number acturally sounds better with hachi |
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i dunno...sometimes my japanese friends correct me sometimes and tell me that it's better to say jyu-hassai because it sounds a lot better than jyu-hachisai. Well it becomes completely different once you say that you're twenty. I believe it's hatachi, but i could be wrong. Anyone here know how to say "twenty years old" in japanese? Is it really ni-jyu-sai? That don't sound right to me for some reason.
Ano, anata wa anime-junkie to itte hoo ga ii deshou ka?
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Re: question regarding age in japanese
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by Rakusu_Kurain
on 2005-05-12 18:50:02
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| um...about jyuu-hassai the reason its in that form because nihongo tends to blend things so it sounds a lot better. It even goes for ichi too, no one says ichi sai, its issai. Wierd but thats just how it is. Same goes for minutes, they have this pattern of fun and pon. 5 intervals are fun and 10's are pun. They also do some blending with minutes too. Like jyuppun, ippun, happun, roppun the rest are either fun or just pun. So there's no formal forms for numbers their just blendind them together. all numbers use hachi for 8 its only hassai when its refering to age. ^_^ |
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Re: question regarding age in japanese
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Dont forget the 100s 三百 ã•ã‚“ã³ã‚ƒã Sanbyaku å…百 ã‚ã£ã´ã‚ƒã Roppyaku 八百 ã¯ã£ã´ã‚ƒã Happaku |