Japanese counter word

Japanese measure words or Zähleinheitswörter (Japanese助 数词josūshi ) are appended to figures to support analogous to a number of other suffixes in Japanese, the reading and listening skills.

Here, different types of objects and abstract concepts is allocated to a defined Zähleinheitswort. A correspondence in German is about sheet in " 50 sheets of paper ." The assignment of terms and Zähleinheitswörtern often depends on shape and size of an object, more rarely used but also assignments Japanese native speaker before problems. Depending on Zähleinheitswort certain figures are extremely irregular.

List of Japanese Zähleinheitswörter

The following alphabetical list also contains rarely used Zähleinheitswörter, but does not claim to be complete.

Some measure words are counted with purely Japanese figures in Kun - reading. In these stands hito - in notes.

As a noun本has the meaning of " book" and is counted with satsu.

Euphonic changes

The phonetics of Zählwörtern may change if certain figures stand before the counter word. This is called euphonic ( gr -sounding ) change as the pronunciation is easier and softer. For example ichi一 k = ikk, roku六 h - = - ropp. The following list provides a detailed overview.

Yonp -よん ば

Yonp -よんぷ

Yonw -よんわyonb -よん ば

Ropp -ろっぱ

Hachiw -はちわ

Jukk -じゅっ か

Juss -じゅっ さ

Jutt -じゅっ た

Jupp -じゅっ ぱ

Jupp -じゅっぷ

Jupp -じゅっ ぱ