Lesson 5: Numbers

In this lesson, you are going to learn about Japanese numbers.  Let's start with one through ten. 1to10                                                                                                                                                                                                                 11 to 19      The numbers from 11 to 19 are formed by putting the appropriate number after ten. 20 to 90      The numbers from twenty to ninety are very similar to one through ten.   For example, twenty in Japanese is ni-juu.  Ni is two, and juu is ten. So "twenty" is really just "two-tens."      ni-juu             san-juu           yon-juu                          (Do NOT say shi-juu.  This is an exeption to the rule.)      go-juu           roku-juu         nana-juu         hachi-juu        kyu-juu                          (Do NOT say ku-juu. This is another exeption.) Larger numbers      hyaku            sen                man                 juu-man            hyaku-man         sen-man              oku

zero one two three four five six seven eight nine ten

rei ichi  ni san shi or yon go roku nana or shichi hachi  kyu or ku juu

juuichi  juuni juusan juushi or juuyon juugo juuroku juunana or juushichi juuhachi  juukyu or juuku

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

See the basic numbers in KANJI.

twenty thirty fourty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety

hundred thousand ten thousand hundred thousand  million ten million  hundred million