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We have grouped a small set of 10 Japanese words that are suffixes for time related words like minutes, hours, days, weeks etc…
Note: You must know Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji to learn them.
This is an easy milestone to cross. Since you already know the numbers, a number followed by these suffixes will produce respective counters
List of JLPT N5 words that indicates counting of period/time
| Kanji | Kana | Romaji | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 分 | 〜ふん | ~fun | ~minutes |
| 時 | 〜じ | ~ji | o’clock |
| 日 | 〜にち | ~nichi | …st, ..nd, ..th |
| 週間 | 〜しゅうかん | ~shuukan | … weeks |
| か月 | 〜かげつ | ~kagetsu | ~ number of months |
| 年 | 〜ねん | ~nen | ~years |
| 時間 | 〜じかん | ~jikan | ~hours (classificator) |
| 半 | 〜はん | ~han | Half~ |
| 時計 | とけい | tokei | watch, clock |
For all these counters, the usage is simple.
A number followed by the counter is the simplest usage
For example: 2 o clock = 2 ji = ni ji
Only exception is the usage of "han"
which is used to denote "half" hour, i.e 30 min
For example: 2:30 should be said as 2 ji han
Now you have completed learning them. Congrats. This is a "small success" and a step ahead to completing all JLPT Level N5 Vocabulary.