Which one is correct？一ヵ月？一ヶ月？

jkami · (#1 (**permalink**))

I see some people use 一ヵ月, some use　一ヶ月, which one is correct?

RadioKid · (#2 (**permalink**))

You can use both, but officially, 一か月 is correct (or recommended).

(According to a rule of a Magazine Editors)

In fact, recently there are some modification made in station names 「霞ヶ関→霞が関」「自由ヶ丘→自由が丘」.

jkami · (#3 (**permalink**))

thanks a lot

KyleGoetz · (#4 (**permalink**))

RadioKid, can you explain to me what the ヶ・が in 自由が丘 is supposed to be? Just sounds like "Freedom is a hill" to me.

I used to live in Sagamihara on 緑ヶ丘 and I never understood the purpose of this, grammatically speaking. I just knew to do it.

kirakira · (#5 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

RadioKid, can you explain to me what the ヶ・が in 自由が丘 is supposed to be? Just sounds like "Freedom is a hill" to me.

I used to live in Sagamihara on 緑ヶ丘 and I never understood the purpose of this, grammatically speaking. I just knew to do it.

が has an old usage which means the same as the possessive form of の.

Obviously you can't translate place names but if you HAD to, it would be closer to 自由の丘, Freedom Hill.

Some words today still use が this way like 我が家、我が国、万が一 etc.

RadioKid · (#6 (**permalink**))

Thank you Kirakira.

freel4ncer · (#7 (**permalink**))

radio kid, can i just ask, in your signature, do you mean that you've never lived in japan, or any overseas countries before?

i would suppose you mean that you've travelled a lot but have only ever lived in japan.

just interesting to note (:

RadioKid · (#8 (**permalink**))

I have been living in Japan and visit overseas several times.

Sorry for my poor English expression.

KyleGoetz · (#9 (**permalink**))

I don't think the expression is poor. I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out how chryuop read your sig as if you'd never lived in Japan.

Maybe everyone just has the ethno(?)centrism to think that "overseas" means "overseas from where I live" rather than "overseas from where the speaker lives."

chryuop · (#10 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz

I don't think the expression is poor. I'm having a bit of difficulty figuring out how chryuop read your sig as if you'd never lived in Japan.

Maybe everyone just has the ethno(?)centrism to think that "overseas" means "overseas from where I live" rather than "overseas from where the speaker lives."

Same avatar wrong person...I have never talked about his sig.