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Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

バカエイゴ — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:07:41 -0000

How do you count things under the "things that have no counter or have a ridiculously obscure one" above ten? Do you just use the regular ol' Sino-japanese number?
For example, would
セーターを二十一買った (セーター・をにじゅういち・かった）
be just as valid as
セーターを二つ買った　(セーター・を・ふたつ・かった)?

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Tofugu_Erin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:54:07 -0000

Possibly? The actual number isn't changing, so idk.

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Josh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:50:34 -0000

English has counters my friend. It's a little different than Japanese counters, but we have them.
I'll show you.
one *sheet* of paper.
two *bottles* of beer.
and so on.
We probably don't have as many, but would you not consider these counters?

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Raby — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:45:20 -0000

omg....you're sooo great!

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Zaywex — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:55:11 -0000

Don't you usual use the 一つ,二つ,etc counter when shopping?

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

mmnessa — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:53:47 -0000

omg, another e-book? thanks a lot! ^_^

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

koichi — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:19:20 -0000

whoops, there's another thing for me to fix :) thank you!

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Robo-panda — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:17:25 -0000

Great guide! counters were always a bit difficult to grasp for me.

I just noticed though in the minutes on the guide there's a typo, it says ろっぷん, but the romaji says "rokupun".

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

ArkyLewis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:44:28 -0000

Although I had to leave early, i enjoyed what time I was there and learned a fair bit including that song, Greatly Appreciated.

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

ルイバ — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:12:29 -0000

I love you Tofugu! youre a great guy!

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Fiona — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:14:00 -0000

oh thx for video so that's who this kid from hey say was doing for this gag agame.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAORx5ixkU

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

stshores24 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:36:43 -0000

'I see!' said the blind man to his deaf friend. Thanks.

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

koichi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:21:22 -0000

Yeah, I need to juggle the css to make it work and accept other colors

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Tofugu_Erin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:17:04 -0000

Click on the text that says ☆Japanese Counters e-Book☆

It's not link-colored, unfortunately.

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

stshores24 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:10:08 -0000

I could be missing it, but...I don't see an actual link to the e-book.

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

moshi_moshi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:33:07 -0000

I was at the edufire meeting ^^ xox

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

eLsa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:21:09 -0000

hey thanks =D
it really helps~

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

sophiebee — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:18:34 -0000

Hey Koichi!
I've been stalking...um I mean reading your blog for a while. I wanted to attend this class but neither time suited me (I'm from Australia). Thanks for the e-book, it looks great. Keep blogging!

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Sam_watashi_wa — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:44:00 -0000

haha very funny didnt see the diffrent languages coming xD
and the peoples reactions are funny :p

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

koichi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:43:59 -0000

very true, i need to edit that, thank you!

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

Abdel — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:35:39 -0000

Hey, what about these exceptions? 十四日（じゅうよっか）、十七日（じゅうしちにち only)、二十日（はつか）二十四日（にじゅうよっか）と二十七日（にじゅうしちにち only）

It is not so straight forward after 十日 as you say.

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

TDoWF — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:20:40 -0000

omg I LOLed sp much

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

TicTaek — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:55:28 -0000

3 has just become my favorite number. Thanks for the e-Book mate!!!

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

WOTDsctoo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:46:54 -0000

NEL! I watch that guy on youtube!
He's not that big or anything...but here I see him on Japanese TV!?!? AH!

Anyway...cool e-book and such. :)
Sorry for getting excited about the wroooong things. XD

Re: Japanese Counters (the Free e-Book)

kurisu — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:09:48 -0000

ホンマおもろ〜 lol thanks a bunch for the e-book! wow my gut kind of sank seeing there are over 80 kinds of counters x_x i guess i should put these to use... walk around campus and just. count things. O_O

thanks again!