3.1: Dialogue 1

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Michael：今日きょうは何日なんにちですか。 Kyou wa nan-nichi desu ka. What date is it today?

Honda ：ええっと、八日ようかじゃないですか。 Eetto, youka ja nai desu ka. Umm, isn’t it the 8th?

Michael：じゃ、締め切りまであと一週間いっしゅうかんですね。 Ja, shimekiri made ato is-shuukan desu ne. Then, it’s one week left until the deadline, right?

Honda ：ええ、がんばりましょう。 Ee, ganbarimashou. Yes, let’s do our best. Michael：はい、一生懸命いっしょうけんめい、がんばります。 Hai, isshoukenmei ganbarimasu. Yes, I’ll go all out and do my best.

Vocabulary

nan-nichi なんにち何日 what date? See 7-1-1
youka ようか八日 8th (of the month) See 7-1-1
shimekiri しめきり締め切り deadline
ato あと後 remaining, left (with a quantity)
~shuukan 〜しゅうかん週間 number of weeks See 7-1-2
is-shuukan いっしゅうかん一週間 one week
isshoukenmei いっしょうけんめい一生懸命 go all out, with utmost effort

Grammar Notes

Calendar time: Counting and Naming Dates

The classifier for both naming and counting days is: ka 日か or nichi 日にち . When naming the days of the month, you only go up to the 31st, but when counting days you can go a lot higher. So, 50 nichi can only mean ‘fifty days’ while tooka can mean ‘the tenth of the month’ or ‘ten days.’ Please note the following:

• the first day of the month is tsuitachi (naming) while one day is ichi-nichi (counting).

• The Japanese number series with the classifier 〜ka is used up through ten, and then the Chinese number series with 〜nichi is used for the rest.

• two exceptions: hatsuka ‘the 20th’ or ‘twenty days’ and combinations ending with 4 such as juuyok-ka and nijuuyok-ka.

• Nan-nichi asks what date? or how many days? Please distinguish between ‘what day of the month’ nan-nichi and ‘what day of the week’ nan-youbi.

Days of the Month

Counting Weeks

The classifier for counting weeks is ~shuukan 週間しゅうかん . There is no naming classifier for weeks. Note the sound change (s  ss) with 1, 8 and 10.

is-shuukan 一週間
いっしゅうかん
one week
ni-shuukan 二週間
にしゅうかん
two weeks
san-shuukan 三週間
さんしゅうかん
three weeks
yon-shuukan 四週間
よんしゅうかん
four weeks
go-shuukan 五週間
ごしゅうかん
five weeks
roku-shuukan 六週間
ろくしゅうかん
six weeks
nana-shuukan 七週間
ななしゅうかん
seven weeks

has-shuukan 八週間
はっしゅうかん
eight weeks
kyuu-shuukan 九週間
きゅうしゅうかん
nine weeks
jus-shuukan 十週間
じゅっしゅうかん
ten weeks
nan-shuukan 何週間
なんしゅうかん

how many weeks?