Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2

44 Lesson 7 Calendar 会話 Dialogue 1 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 8 th ? 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. 単語 Vocabulary nan-nichi なんにち 何日 what date? See 7-1-1 youka ようか 八日 8 th (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 文法 Grammar Notes 7-1-1 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 31 st , 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.

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