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Some numbers can be uttered in different ways, it
doesn't matter how.
Nevertheless if you use them as prefixes to form a bigger number
you must be careful to pronounce them in a way or in another, it's not the same.
For example to say 90 you don't write kuju, but kyuju.
Well ... but how to count in Japanese?
Easy (if you are Japanese...)!
To form numbers bigger than 10 and smaller than 100, for example 21,
you have to take ten (ju), put it at the centre of the word and
then on its left you write the value it must be multiplied by (two ni
in this case); then you add 1 (ichi) on the right.
So to get 21 you will write nijuichi (two times 10 plus one)
Summarizing: numbers on the left must be multiplied and numbers on the right
must be added.
Here are a few examples:
- 11 - juichi
- 14 - jushi
- 20 - niju
- 21 - nijuichi
- 30 - sanju
- 40 - yonju
- 50 - goju
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- 60 - rokuju
- 70 - sichiju
- 80 - hachiju
- 90 - kyùju
- 100 - kyaku
- 101 - kyakuichi
- 1000 - sen
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Japanese don't read number 432,040 as
fourhundred-thirtytwo-thousand-fourty, but as
fourtythree-tenthousand-twothousand-fourty
i.e. yonsanmannisenyonju
(yonsan [43] man [x 10,000] + ni [2] x sen [1,000] + yonju [40])
Further information about Japanese numbers and words can be
found at these web addresses:
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