Counting in Japanese can provide interesting problems to the beginning student.
Counting is a basic skill someone develops as a child and it can sometimes be hard to overcome many years of learning how to count in their native language then suddenly have to comprehend numbers spoken in another language. However counting in Japanese is actually very easy and once you have learned how to count to 10 in Japanese you have actually gain the knowledge needed to count to 100.
| English | Japanese |
|---|---|
| one | ichi |
| two | ni |
| three | san |
| four | shi (yon) |
| five | go |
| six | roku |
| seven | shishi (nana) |
| eight | hachi |
| nine | ku (kyu) |
| ten | ju |
| eleven | juichi |
| twelve | juni |
| thirteen | jusan |
| fourteen | jushi (juyon) |
| fifteen | jugo |
| sixteen | joruku |
| seventeen | jushichi (junana) |
| eighteen | juhachi |
| nineteen | juku (jukyu) |
| twenty | niju |
| thirty | sanju |
| forty | yonju |
| fifty | goju |
| sixty | rokuju |
| seventy | nanju |
| eighty | hachiju |
| ninety | kuju |
| one hundred | hyaku |
