How to Count (Almost) Anything in Japanese | Japanese Counter Words

we count pant like n s do you know how to count all the other things like birds animals vehicles and all those things in Japanese let's find [Music] out what's up Japan I'm Max welcome back to my channel where we dive into the world of nongo and Japanese culture so today's topic is Japanese count all right so if you are starting to learn Japanese you might not know this but if you are already learning Japanese you probably know that Japanese has so many different words to count different kinds of things well I won't be able to introduce every single one of the counters in Japanese in this video but I'm going to try to go through a lot of them let's get into it all right so the first thing first the most typical most General counter we use in Japanese when we count basically anything that is after konut after nine you can't really use two anymore if what you're counting is more than 10 of them you might not be able to use this but you can use this for almost anything so for example even if you don't know all the other uh counters that I'm going to show you in this video you can still just stick with two all right so two was the most General counter the second most General counter is so all the other counters that I'm going to show you except for two you can use it with any number all right any number So Co is usually used with smaller objects if you have an eraser then that's if you have three erasers then KES or like I said two is super General so you can use two for eras too so but as you might have already noticed the numbers how we read the numbers change depending on the counter that you use so usually 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 it will be but when you use two that's going to be right and when you use it's going to be it's not just you just got to learn and you just have to be used to saying the numbers depending on the counter that you use so the next one is m m m is used for flat and thin things like paper and leaves and stuff I just found a fallen Lea flat and thin things so how you say the numbers doesn't change with my and the next one is Hong Hong the beginning of this video I counted my pens Hong is used for thin and long objects like pant pencils trees and all these things that are long and thin not and oh fingers are H too Hong is long and thin objects all right the next one is sat sat so sat is used for books when you count books it's is for book looks and the next one is ning ning so ning is for counting people but be careful it's not all n n doesn't exist we say when you count one person and N doesn't really exist either when you count two people it's hutar hutar and then after three people that's ning just be careful that one person and two people are and and after three after three it's like normal okay that's ning for people and the next one is hii hicki hii is used for smaller animals smaller animals like mice dogs and cats so when you count cats it's kind of like H when you count long thin objects you say and acts kind of the same way so so I said that hi is for smaller animals but what about like big animals like lions elephants giraffes we count them with toe toe so we use toe for larger animals e to [Music] so for like medium siiz animals I think some of them are hickey and some of them are tall so some people might count this specific animal others might count them depending on how they see them but not all the animals can be counted with he or to so the special animals are birds birds are not hicky or to we use four Birds when you count crows so what's interesting is that even though rabbits are not Birds we use W for rabbits too but I think if you even if you uh count rabbits with hickey that makes sense the next one is d d so we use D for large objects specifically usually machines cars cars are so actually fonts fonts even though these are not really large because these the machines we use D but I guess phones used to be bigger machines and let's move on to clothes all right so so CH is usually used to count clothes this is it CH but also these are thin and flat so it could be ich too I personally use my for these sweaters and t-shirts but when I count these bigger jackets maybe these are chuu too not my because these are kind of thicker thicker than normal t-shirts or U sweaters right so these are kind of vague but that's how we count things so and Footwear we use so we use not chak or may a pair of shoes is ISU pair of shoes is so is one pair of shoes two pairs of shoes three pairs of shoes all right the next one is hi hi hi is a counter too so he is used for liquids in a glass or a cup one cup of tea is if you are specifically talking about a glass of tea then it's so if you want a glass of tea then you can say or if it's in a cup so let's move on to how to count time and n n n is for days but this is pretty tricky like that's normal [Music] it's so it's really confusing but you just got to remember you just got to memorize this but what you have to be careful is when you talk about like January 1st February 1st March 1st the first day of the month so for example January yeah we we all understand we all understand but we Native Japanese speakers say is the first day of the month there are two more counters that I want to show you one is KAG KAG so KAG is used when you count months count months when you count months as period of time for 3 months for five months in 3 months in 10 months then you use so that's how you count months and finally the last one the last one is Kai Kai Kai is used when you talk about the number of times that something has been done so for example if you want to say I've been to Tokyo once I've been to Tokyo twice I've been to Tokyo three times that times is that's how you use all right so that's it for today's video did you know all the counters that I showed you today and did you know how to actually count them like instead of these ones are pretty commonly used in Daily conversations there are of course way more counters in Japanese but for now for now just learn all the ones that I showed you in this video and if you like this video please hit the like and please leave a comment below what you thought about the video or if you know any other counters please let me know please let us all know and if you haven't subscribed to my channel Max Japanese Please Subscribe and see you in the next one bye oh

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Length: 14min 2sec (842 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 30 2024