Through this Japanese lession, you will get to learn how to say time (ji-ka-n じ か ん / 時間) in Japanese and the questions to ask for time in Japanese.

To say time in Japanese, we need to combine the "O'clock(hour)" and the "minutes" to form the Japanese word for time. And of course, you will get to learn how to say seconds in Japanese. 

Okay, let's start learning telling time in Japanese!

There are different counters for counting different stuff in Japanese language. It is something similar to Chinese language which has different counters for counting different stuff as well. The easiest language to count stuff is in English language. This is because in English language, we can usually count straight away without any counter or the most common counter is  "piece" which is used to count flat things like sheet of paper or biscuits. 

To count people or things in Japanese, it's a combination of <Number> + <Counter> to form the Japanese word to count people and things. The same way as both the Chinese and English languages.

Near the end of this page, there are Japanese words for counting stuffs that has no specific counter; using a general counter if neccessary. Do take note of this as well so you know when to use the right counter(s). 

Before we move on to attend more Japanese lessons, let's take a look on how we can use the Japanese words that you have learnt in Japanese lessons 6, 7, 8 and 9 regarding days, dates, month, year and number through the following conversations examples.

Note that you may change the names of the person involve in these conversations, Summer-san and Winter-san and Autumn-san, to other people's name and to your own family members.

Let's start learning Japanese in conversations now~

"wa は" is an important element of basic grammer.

It can be used in 2 ways like "what about..." and "as for...".

Example: 

i) "Are wa?  あれは(wa)？" meaning "what about that?"

ii) "Kare wa sensei desu.  かれは(wa)せんせいです。/ 彼は(wa)先生です。" meaning "As for him, he is a teacher."

NOTE that wa in this case are written as は(ha) rather than わ.

わ is used only to form the words like "I - watashi わたし" , "We - watashitachi わたしたち", "Understand - wakarimasu わかります" , etc

Let's start learning "wa は" in more examples now~