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Had a little question that confused me in the practice part.
http://www.textfugu.com/season-2/past-tense-nouns/practice/
There is a sentence that goes:
七人 じゃありませんnow I thought you should say this sentence like this:
Nanari ja-arimasen (since 7 things is nanatsu)But when I listen to the audio-file I hear (I think)
shichiri(or ni?) ja-arimasen? (shichi being just plain 7)That confused me knowing that for 1 or 2 person(s) you’d go hitori/futari and not ichiri or niri.. could someone explain me? Think I’m making a mistake here
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-AcidThe answer should be here:
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/quick-question-%E4%B8%83%E4%BA%BA/
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Our search function doesn’t work, but Google can’t be stopped; so you can always go to Google, punch in, without the quotes, “site:www.textfugu.com/bb/ [search terms]” and it should give ye something. Hope this helps!
I haz a blog http://maninjapanchannel.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLQzB-1u-dgAllright, thank you, checked it out :) !
Just to be clear, I can use both nanari and shichinin to say 7 people?
What would be the more standard way then?While googling I found out that counting things in Japanese is so much fun, woop woop.. *cough* :p
As far as I can tell, the り readin for 人 when used as a counter is only used for 1 and 2, namely 一人 and 二人. For the other numbers it seems only にん is used. Since 七人 is a compound word, I think that’s why it uses the しち reading and not the なな one. This seems to apply to other numbers as well.
よろしくおねがいします！
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