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Originally Posted by Kandierain15
I can't even count. I know....ichi=1 Ni=2 an so on up to 20....but that's about it.
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The beauty of counting in Japanese is, if you know the 10,100,1000,10000 counters, you can count anything. If you can count to 20, then you can already count to 99
二十 ni-juu -> 20
二十一 ni-juu-ichi -> 21
二十二 ni-juu-ni -> 22
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九十 kyuu-juu -> 90
百 -> hyaku -> hundred
千 -> sen -> thousand
万 -> man -> ten thousand
** note on "man", you should always place "ichi" before it for numbers such as 10000, 12000, 10598. You can get away with just sen-ju-ichi for 1011, but for 10100 you would need to say ichiman-hyaku
Edit: Unless you're talking p
about counters like -kai, -ko, -pon .. That's one area I don't have a firm grasp on yet