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In Motorsport Nissan often uses the 23 as Number on their car. Because of the reason you mentioned. It just sounds like Nissan.
Its actually a combination of the words "Nippon Sangyo" meaning "Japan Industries". Ni(s) - san. It is also the reason why many Racecars from Nissan actually had the numbers 23 , 2 or 3.
After WWII, America supplied Post-War Japan with a lot of economic tools which helped their economy skyrocket, and Nissan was a company founded in the process, A lot of companies came from it. In fact, Mitsubishi was founded by a Samurai clan.
So what matters for you in the conversation about 2 and 3 is your (hero of the world , nr.1 , greatest of all time ) nation that had nothing to do with Nissan or Japanese evolution!!!!
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お兄さん (oniisan) = older brother
日産 (nissan) = the car company
二三 (ni san) = two three
They sound very similar, you'll find this happens a lot in Japanese. [2019/03/22]
I think you'll find that 二三 is normally pronounced "nii san," as in "ichi, nii, san, shii, goo, roku, shichi, hachi, kuu/kyuu, juu."
It would be good to provide some kanji equivalents to avoid confusion. In my opinion, Japanese has too many homophones to translate words written in hiragana/katakana with no context provided.
It sounds quite same as Chinese character 三（three）, so it must be so easy for Chinese to memorize
Being a Chinese speaker, I can prove this. Furthermore, most names of numbers in modern Japanese are borrowed from Chinese.
The way the n-sound is extended at the end almost makes it sound like there's a g there.
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Also, the number three would never be written in hiragana like this in Japanese. It would be written 三, or just using the Arabic numeral 3. Normally, if you see 'さん' in writing, you would expect it to mean Mr./Mrs./Miss.
Not using the kanji with furigana here is incredibly misleading. Three would never be written just as さん, and can easily also be interpreted as "Mr." or "Mrs."
my assumption is they don't want to use Kanji here since early on it might be confusing. But yeah having the kanji would be a bit clearer
Is it sam like korean or san, the pronunciation isn't that clear? or maybe it's my ears :3
a little help on numbers if anyone needs help! ^^ One - itchi - my leg is itchy Two - ni - someones knee three - san - like the sun or a son four - yon - I wasn't taught this way so find a way to remember it! I learned it like (she) shi Five - gol ( I think) - someone scored a goal in soccer six - roku - rock (nonliving) or rock star seven - nana - bananas! eight - hatchi - a chick is about to hatch nine - que ( I think) - like the letter Q ten - Jew - yeah.... uh hope this helped ^^
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Nice memory tools, although you're slightly off on numbers 5 and 9. Here are the onyomi of each:
一：ichi いち
二：ni に
三：san さん
四：yon, shi よん / し
五：go ご
六：roku ろく
七：nana, shichi なな / しち
八：hachi はち
九：kyuu, ku きゅう / く
十：juu じゅう
し sounds exactly like 死 (death), so よん is usually preferred. Same goes for しち — too close to 死, so なな is usually preferred.
There are also kunyomi (native) pronunciations, but these are usually only used in counters and such so you'll get to them later.
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Ichi=one Ni=two San=three Yon=four Go=five Roku=six Nana=seven Hachi=eight Kyuu=nine Juu=ten
I've always preferred ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, shichi, hachi, ku, juu.
Japanese linguists say it ends with a uvular nasal, which is more like "ng" than "n." I disagree. "San, sang, sam, and sã" are all OK, if followed by silence.
It was "sam" in Chinese when Japan first borrowed it as "samu/sabu" long ago. Still "sam" in Korean.
why hiragana of 'Sa' in duolingo pc and android are different in shape?
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Just different fonts. Some distinguish certain kana or match the stroke order better/differently than others. [2019/03/22]
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It is, but 三 (さん) is also the number three. This is why kanji are so useful, Japanese has so many freaking homophones. [2019/03/22]
I've wrote 5 and and it sais that it is a good awnser, and it sais that 3 is an other translation ???? It this right ??
Duo's grading system let's you be about one letter off in spelling and accepts it as long as it doesn't make a new word. It has no idea how to handle single numbers that aren't written out. So any number is going to just look like a typo to it. The correct translation is 3, 三, "three". It will accept 1,2,4,5, etc as a typo, but it will mark you wrong if you write it out as one, two, four, five, etc.
I'm confused, is さ supposed to be written that way? Or is it supposed to look like a switched ち? On the cp they look different.
In what way do you mean?
さ "sa" and ち "chi" are inverse of each other, yes.
Depending on the font being used they may look slightly different. Sometimes their top and bottom curves will be disconnected, sometimes they will be all one piece. They're written the same way, just some fonts depict the slight lifting of the brush going around a curve you would see in calligraphy.
This is a very common comment
Duo's grading system let's you be about one letter off in spelling and accepts it as long as it doesn't make a new word. It has no idea how to handle single numbers that aren't written out. So any number is going to just look like a typo to it. The correct translation is 3, 三, "three". It will accept 1,2,4,5, etc as a typo, but it will mark you wrong if you write it out as one, two, four, five, etc.
It says I'm incorrect when I type in the kanji. (When I know I'm correct)
Are you sure the exercise the kanji was marked as incorrect on was an English-to-Japanese translation? This discussion is attached to a Japanese-to-English exercise, and it obviously isn't going to accept kanji as an answer there.
If it was on an English-to-Japanese exercise though, report it.
first off it would be nicer if it saiod to translate it to english and not to type it in english like romaji. Second of all Kanji would help 'cause San means Three and it also means Mountain
I agree with your "first off," especially since it was a hiragana lesson and I assumed they wanted pronunciation. It means "three" when counting "ichi, ni, san, ..." but not for anything like an answer to "How many?" "Mountain" as part of a word such as "sanmyaku" 'mountain range,' or "Mount" as the end of a word such as "fujisan" 'Mt. Fuji.'
I guess that I could say nana and it would mean any number? This is what i understand from this
さん - Why would this be a faulty answer in duo lingo? (Trying to use Japanese keyboard)
This question is asking for the English translation of the word, so "three"
I realized this later when I saw an identical question :P Thanks for the quick answer tho. Is there anything more than just using duoling for 20min > 1hour a day you would recommend me to do? I have about 2months before I am going over to japan.
This word can be also translated to "acid, sourness, sour taste"
"San" is a Romanization, not translation. In this course you must translate the words unless the sentence consists of one Hiragana, because the translation can be its name.
Whenever I hit my keyboard ( in my memos ) to write san (さん) it shows another simbol for sa (さ) I tried to tapped here but it shows the original here. It shows this(ち) but in a different position from right to left .
