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Why are there two pronunciations for the numbers 4, 7 and 9 in Japanese? I have always been curious to know if there was a specific reason why (if there is any). Thank you for answering my question :-) they were very helpful.
2010年8月6日 13:00
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Sometimes its because the number doesn't match or make sense with the sentences/topic causing the sentence to not flow smoothly. & you also say the numbers different when counting things [they count by counter]. Another thing is the number 4 & 9 also means death & suffering in japanese which is unlucky [or any other asian culture].
2010年8月7日
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this question is difficult for me When I reading 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 I say ici ni san si go roku shichi hachi ku jyuu but 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 jyuu kyuu hachi nana roku go yon san ni ichi Because I count easily when the number is counted. this is no answer of your question.... and Do you know most of Japanese Kanji has reading of two kinds or more? ON yomi and KUN yomi sorry my English is poor my explain is bad.... I'm sorry
2010年8月7日
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4(yo),7(nana),9(kokono(tu), are old fashioned..And 4(shi),7(shichi),9(kyu)are general. It depends on the case which one you prnounce. This page is good for you. But these are Japanese.. http://www.rd.mmtr.or.jp/~bunryu/nihon2.shtml
2010年8月7日
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: ) Take it easy . Even native speaker doesn't know the reason why they are pronounced differently. But , through general life, we can know how to count differently depending on the measurement unit. So , you should study each change to each measurement unit to be precise. the number of Book , Tofu , Time , Length , ..etc many !!! http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/lesson05.cfm http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080520072344AAylWPO
2010年8月8日
because one of them came from ancient chinese.
2010年10月16日
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