Japanese Numbers

The Japanese numbers could be summarized in the table below.

English	Romaji	Hiragana
One	Ichi	いち
Two	Ni	に
Three	San	さん
Four	Yon	よん
Five	Go	ご
Six	Roku	ろく
Seven	Nana	なな
Eight	Hachi	はち
Nine	Kyu	きゅう
Ten	Juu	じゅう
Hundred	Hyaku	ひゃく
Thousand	Sen	せん
Ten thousand	Man	まん
Hundred million	Ichioku	いちおく

It is also easy to learn other numbers as the Japanese just combine the names of the numbers that make the figure.

For example:

English	Figure	Romaji	Hiragana
Eleven	11	juuichi	じゅういち
Twenty two	22	nijuuni	にじゅうに
Three hundred	300	sanhyaku	さんひゃく
Four thousand	4,000	yonsen	よんせん
Fifteen Thousand	15,000	ichimangosen	いちまんぎせん
One million two hundred and thirty five thousand	1,235,000	hyakunijuusanmangosenhappyaku	ひゃくにじゅうさんまんぎせんはっぴゃく
One hundred  and twenty six million	126,000,000	ichiokunisenroppyakuman	いちおくにせんろっぴゃくまん

To close this lesson, we will teach you how to tell different ages in Japanese.

わたしもなんさいでか？

I’m basically asking you how old you are.

English	Romaji	Hiragana
One years old	issai	いっさい
Two years old	nissai	にっさい
Five years old	gossai	ごっさい
Eight years old	hassai	はっさい
Ten years old	juusai	じゅうさい
Eighteen years old	juuhassai	じゅうはっさい
Twenty years old	hatachi	はたち
Twenty one years old	Nijuuissai	にじゅういっさい
Twenty three years old	nijuusansai	にじゅうさんさい

You should have noticed that apart from “twenty years old” you basically just add “ssai” to the number that represents your age. In some cases you have to omit some words from the number for example saying “hassai” instead of “hachissai”