Counting Birds
In this lesson you will learn how to count birds. There are all sorts of counters in Japanese. Different counters for animals, objects and ideas. There are hundreds of counters in Japanese. As a student of Japanese it would be pretty impossible to learn them all. In fact very few Japanese would know all the counters in the Japanese language.
So here we go with the counter for birds.
羽
|
No |
漢字 |
ひらがな |
English |
|
1 |
一羽 |
いちわ |
One bird |
|
2 |
二羽 |
にわ |
Two birds |
|
3 |
三羽 |
さんわ |
Three Birds |
|
4 |
四羽 |
よんわ |
Four Birds |
|
5 |
五羽 |
ごわ |
Five Birds |
|
6 |
六羽 |
ろくわ |
Six Birds |
|
7 |
七羽 |
しちわ・ななわ |
Seven Birds |
|
8 |
八羽 |
はちわ |
Eight Birds |
|
9 |
九羽 |
くわ |
Nine Birds |
|
10 |
十羽 |
じゅうわ |
Ten Birds |
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