みなさんいつもありがとうございます！！ Thank you for watching!!! If there’s anything you want to learn or see about Japanese/Japan, please let me know in the comments! * At around 01:59 I wrote 「十一個 十三個 十四個 十五個」 but 「十一個 十二個 十三個 十四個」 is correct. I accidentally skipped 十二個 when I typed it in editing 😅 Sorry!
😮😮😮😮😮! Ohaiyo Max! Only started back learning Japanese today well actually yesterday however what you featured in your segment I never knew about before I knew about the basic counting from 1 to 10 but all the other counters never knew about it until today thanks much. Hope to see more learning curve tutorials. Arigatou! From the West Indies btw!
I'm shocked after "there is 500+ counters". I was aware from Japanese friends that "we have some specific words for different counters よね", but I was NOT ready for 500 of them :D
Changes in pronunciation are not random. Pay attention and you soon will notice the (quite easy) pattern behind those changes. Same patterns are applied to the changes in other types of words, like adjectives and nouns. They are naver random.
Just as I'm beginning to grasp the sublime nature of Kanji and preparing myself to start learning it, I come across this. Why, why, why?? I'm starting to cry :(
What a great video! VERY HELPFUL! I find it really interesting that the counter for larger animals, "to", uses the kanji for head (頭). English uses the word "head" for counting large farm/herd animals, too. For instance, you would say "50 head of cattle" in English. What a coincidence!
毎日日本語を二時間ぐらい勉強します。At times, it feels like there will never be an end to the mountain of Kanji and exception cases, counters included. This is where videos like this one which may not teach you all the possible things to know but put into perspective what you need to know to have some first conversations (for the moment at least) really help you out. Thank you for that!
As a Korean speaker, watching this video Korean also uses counters for different objects. We also have counters for books (권/kwon), people (인/in or 명/myung), animals (마리/mari) they don't differentiate between animal sizes , for big objects like cars or mechanical objects (대/dae) for clothes (벌/beol), for glasses (잔/jan) , days (일/il) & months (월/wol) & many more!!
Thanks so much, it's actually been difficult to find online resources explaining the different pronunciations. I've been living in Japan for 9 months but before this video, I didn't have hope I could understand. Really appreciate your video, and I look forward to watching more!
This is great! I’ve been using duolingo for my Japanese and was soooo confused by all the different counters because it literally just throws them at you with no explanation. This was immensely helpful!
I know it actually is hard 😅 but you don’t have to be perfect! You don’t have to be scared to make mistakes :) Just learn/study little by little and you’ll get there eventually 😊
Having never specificly studied counters, just seeing them here and there, I'm really proud of myself for knowing all of them!😄 When the consonants change, seems to follow a logic, but I wouldn't trust myself to get them right quite yet. This video will be re-watched!👍
Learning the Counters was so confusing , but, with your Video, it has become more interesting, informative and easier . Looking forward for many more !!!
A counter for how often (per day week etc). Also used for degrees of angle and temperature for larger numbers. 1度 いちど ichido = once or just one time please - more polite than 回 when asking 2度 にど nido = twice 3度 さんど sando = thrice Not to be confused with むかし むかし for once upon a time.
Wow, your video puts everything so concisely, I couldn't believe that your channel was still this unknown. I'm sure this will get pushed by the algorithm to more people. Thanks for the lesson Max先生！！
You’re right! I just skipped how to count “time” in general in this video, but I will most likely cover them in future videos :) Thank you for your comment!
Discovered your channel today. Loved the vídeo. Counters were something I decided to leave for later when I first encountered them because they looked so complicated. They eventually became easier to grasp.
ありがとございます！ たくさのことを教わりました。 I do have one small critique, though. I would love to hear more about why certain things are the way they are. Like how 足 means leg, for example, which makes it being the counter for shoes make much more sense; or how you use native Japanese numbers for 1人 and 2人, but not the rest, to specify that they're not just different ways to say the same number. This is already a complicated topic, so I completely understand if you explain things this way to avoid confusion, but I honestly think it would only be helpful if you cleared up little things like that, since a new Japanese learner will have to learn it anyway. I think it would make the counters easier to remember as well. It's only a small thing, though. All in all it's a very solid video. Once again, thank you very much! :)
First of all: I always admire a good beard on a Japanese man, I met my first Japanese friend that way as my first ever conversation in Japanese was about it. So if you haven’t got an invite yet to Beard Brothers Club, here is one now. We can all communicate with each other using our minds, and we love cookies( because the crumbs get in our beard make them smell good. ) Second. Love this enthusiasm and wish you the best of luck, keep at it!
In my Japanese class, we learned time and date related stuff before we learned various counters. So in the beginning, when you wanted to express for example the "X'th day (of a month, etc) the way numbers 1-9 were pronounced were super confusing. It really begin to make sense, when we learned about the counters. Although then at the beginning the various types of counters were confusing in their own way
It's better to learn counters and kanji once you have reached a decent or good level and to focus more on learning vocabulary. That way, your learning experience won't be as stressful.
I always felt so insecure about my counter knowledge but to my surprise I knew most of these! As in their uses and base pronunciation at least. 頭, 着, and 足 were new to me. Isn't it weird how common it is for lessons to teach 匹 and not 頭? Also had no idea about 羽 being used for rabbits! Lol. Great video! Blessed by algorithm 🙏
Thank you for your comment :) Like I said in the video, you could still use 匹 for bigger animals, but to sound more natural, knowing 頭 would definitely be a plus :)
Thank you for your comment!! •Meetings (会議:かいぎ)→回(かい) •Fish (魚:さかな)→We usually use 匹(ひき) but there are some more ways to count fish depending on the situations. •Stars (星:ほし)& Planets (惑星:わくせい)→個(こ)/つ even though they are not technically small… lol •Trees (木:き)→本(ほん) •Plants → so many different counters for different plants 😅 Hope this helps!
Well the upside is that you don't need to transform the number before counters in Chinese. Imagine you can simply add いち、に、さん ... before every kind of counters in Japanese 😭 It's gonna be so much easier to learn Japanese but it'll lose the fun at the same time!
Maxちゃん！ この素晴らしい動画ありがとうございます もっとポストをして下さいませんか このチャンネルは人気が上昇しますよ！ Also really cool to realize how the counter for drinks connects to the expression "乾杯！” Could you please help me by the way? In sayings like: 「後悔先に立たず」 or 「火のない所に煙は立たず」 what is this meaning/usage of 立たず? I understand how ず is essentially ない けど、意味がわかんない😭
Learning japanese for ~7 months now and learned quite some Counter Words.. and I hate them all! xD Always thinking to myself "Just why another one just for birds? For Books? Really? Okay..."
I thought I learned 1-10 in martial arts class some time back, even heard it in movies and songs and figured those were the numbers and we were good to go. Then I start actually learning the language, the apps have already thrown a few different versions of some numbers like 四 instead of し for 4 and 七 instead of しち for 7, and I was like "uh oh..." Now after seeing this, I am utterly terrified...
Those are the kanji version of those numbers. 一 (いち)、二 （に)、三 (さん)、四 (よん、し)、五 (ご)、六 (ろく)、七(しち、なな) 八(はち)、九(きゅう)、十(じゅう) Then after that you just "combine" them to form bigger numbers, such as 16 which would be 十六 (じゅうろく). It might seem scary and honestly it can be but those kanji are quite easy to remember, and believe it or not counting in Japanese isn't really that hard. But like everything it takes practice
me with a friend entering an izakaya in Narita town. Me trying to impress the friend who's never been to Japan before: "sumimasen, biru o nihai onegaishimas" and lo presto, 2 beers land on the table with my friend extremely impressed. a week later me with the same friend, and another friend in an izakaya in Shinjuku. Me completely quiet. The friend looking at me confused "why don't you order drinks?" Me admitting defeat embarassingly "I do not know how to say 3 beers..."
It actually depends… like if you think they are shaped relatively like stick-shaped, then they are often 〜本. For example, pillars used for houses and stuff are 本 even though they are usually thick, because they are long enough to look like a stick, if that makes sense!
Hi Max, thank you for your video. I came across one inconsistency. When you first talk about 本 at 4:13, you say that 八本 is pronounced as "happon". However, when you talk about 本 again at 6:24, you say that 八本 is pronounced as "hachihon". Which one is correct? Thank you :)
Thank you so much for your wonderful lesson. However, many Japanese teachers on RU-vid counted とお as 10 in the つ counting. Can you clarify this? Thanks!
Thank you for your comment! That’s actually a really complicated thing to talk about😅 I might need another video just for that… It has something to do with the Japanese language’s history and transformation too, so I would suggest that you just think that you can use つ only up to 9 (ここのつ), and とお is not used in the same way as 1-9つ. If you need more assistance, you can email me!
Thank you for your video! I learned to count eight as はっぴき、はっぽん etc. Which is more natural, はっぴき or はちひき? Or is it a matter of preference or region? You had both.
Thank you for your comment! Actually, both of them are correct… As far as I know as a native Japanese speaker, we don’t have a clear rule for that… It’s also probably a matter of preference and dialect as you pointed out. Sorry for the confusion!
Thank you for your comment! Actually, both of them are correct… As far as I know as a native Japanese speaker, we don’t have a clear rule for that… It’s also probably a matter of preference and dialect as you pointed out. Sorry for the confusion!
Good question! It’s usually 片方(かたほう)の靴 or 方足(かたそく) but you can also say 一個 :) To avoid any confusion, I would stick with 片方 because it’s probably the most common way to refer to one shoe :) Also, depending on the context, 靴片方 would be better to use than 片方の靴. btw, 片っ方(かたっぽ/かたっぽう) is considered a bit casual, and maybe it’s Osaka dialect (I could be wrong because I speak Osaka dialect and i’m not completely sure if it’s used nation-wide lol)
Thank you for your comment:) If you want to say first ___, second ___…. You can use this method: number + counter + 目(め) For example, the first person = 1人目(ひとりめ) the first pen = 1本目(いっぽんめ)のペン the first book = 1冊目(いっさつめ)の本(ほん) the first cat = 1匹目(いっぴきめ)のねこ … I hope it makes sense ;)
