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- "一万円です。"
"一万円です。"
Translation:It is 10000 yen.
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一 = 1
十 = 10
百 = 100
千 = 1,000
一万 = 10,000
十万 = 100,000
百万 = 1,000,000
千万 = 10,000,000
一億 = 100,000,000
Japanese from Zero! has an excellent video on YT of a system meant to quickly convert between Japanese and English numbers that's definitely worth watching.
Is it this video? Japanese Numbers PT 4 (100 million and above) - Japanese From Zero! Video 06
Will be easier to understand to write in 10^4n numeral system (what is it called?). 1 10 100 1000 1,0000 = 1 & ,0000 10,0000 = 10 & ,0000 100,0000 = 100 & ,0000 1000,0000 = 1000 & ,0000 1,0000,0000 = 1 & ,0000,0000
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10^(4x) where - x=1 万（まん） - x=2 億（おく） - x=3 兆（ちょう） - x=4 京（けい） - x=5 垓（がい）
For a full list check https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/命数法
Japanese uses units of 4 zeros rather than 3 zeros. That's more or less how I remember it.
一万 = いちまん = 1,0000 = ten thousand = 10,000
十万 = じゅうまん = 10,0000 = one hundred thousand = 100,000
百万 = ひゃくまん = 100,0000 = one million = 1,000,000
I know it's been a long time, but the 1x10^n is called scientific notation. 5 million(五百万) would be 5x10^6. 0.00000005 would be 5x10^-8.
Do you know why 一 only comes before 万？In all other cases (十,百,千), that would be redundant, right? Is it just "a thing" in Japanese, with no special reasoning?
Since you count in steps of 10,000 in Japanese (as well as in Chinese), the counting begins anew with 10,000 (and then again with 100,000,000), so that's probably why the 一 is added in front of 万.
Even English starts it earlier than the Japanese. "There are one hundred people in the room".
While reading this I read it along with a tune.
If you want a song to help remember the numbers then you should check this one out:
https://youtu.be/AiosKUO7oqo?t=65
I highly recommend! Its a nice song to help you counting with/by tens places, and the comments have a bunch of native speakers, who also go over the characters, how theyre used, and what numbers they represent!
In my experience: yes. Since man is ten thousend it is like saying "one tenthousend", 20000 is 2 ten thousend. Does this make any sense? I'm sry to be so bad at explaining and English is also a second language to me :/
Sort of like saying how many of that counter you have: 二千円= 2 times the counter AFTER it = 2x1000 (二=2, 千=1000).
I'm sure someone has a waay better way of describing this
well by the same reasoning sen is a unit of one thousand and i will never forget when a friend corrected me long ago for saying "issen". i can't believe there's any more reason for this than for the countless English expressions that make no sense.
Yup. It indeed doesn't really make sense.
To add an example of English expressions that make no sense:
1 = one
10 = ten
100 = one hundred
1.000 = one thousand
10.000 = ten thousand
100.000 = one hundred thousand
This leaves me with a couple of questions: Why isn't it "one ten"? Why isn't it "one ten thousand"? why isn't it "one hundred one thousand"?
How is 円 pronounced? I thought it's pronounced "en", but sometimes I hear "yen" or "uen" at duolingo
It can sound like "yen" if preceded by an い sound, like 一円 is spelled as "ichi-en" and would be nearly indistinguishable from "ichi-yen."
It sounds a little bit like "yen" in this one too, though, and 一万 ends in a ん sound. But that's fine I guess; the thing to remember is that it's always in principle "en" rather than "yen", it just sounds different sometimes?
Ichi-yen would have one more beat and thus should be distinguishable from ichi-en.
From your answer, though, I gather that it's just EN. That's what the other person was asking. The Y exists only in English.
Here it is. As simple as it gets.
In other countries, they separate digits in groups of 3.
- 1 - one
- 10 - ten
- 100 - hundred
- 1,000 - ONE thousand
- 10,000 - TEN thousand
- 100,000 - HUNDRED thousand
- 1,000,000 - million
But in this language system, they separated in groups of 4!
- 1 - ichi
- 10 - juu
- 100 - hyaku
- 1000 - sen
- 1,0000 - ICHI man
- 10,0000 - JUU man
- 100,0000 - HYAKU man
- 1000,0000 - SEN man
- 1,0000,0000 - oku
They are not written this way when numbers are used, but this is the way it is organized in the language. It is completely different from English counting, so stop comparing.
I entered "it is 1000 yen" and it told me that it was correct and had a typo, rather than being an error. I think this should probably be counted as incorrect, since it's a pretty big difference and the section is about numbers.
I feel like it's really weird to introduce 10 000 and 11 000 before you've really learned numbers like 27, 110 or 1000.
Actually, they did introduce numbers such as 27 in the lesson about ages. With sentences like「二十二歳です」. They could although have given more practice than a couple sentences. Just remember that the system is always the same. A digit on the left multiply, and a digit on the right is added
If you have problems with remenbering all those names, listen to the song "COUNTING!!" on youtube
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of that song :D
I've posted this link a while ago. But it wouldn't do any harm to post it here as well: https://youtu.be/AiosKUO7oqo?t=65 ^^
I imagined a waiter saying this as the price so I wrote "That will be 10000 yen" and it didn't mark it as correct smh
why do they say "en" and not "yen" for the 円 character? Or, why the translation is YEN when they say and write えん?
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It is because of historical reasons. Take a look at my comments in this thread => https://www.duolingo.com/comment/23214802
I answered "It is 10,000 yen" and it said there was a typo in my answer.
Do they use " . " ? Or only " , " ? How would I write it? Like 10,000 yen? I don't really understand yen
What are the "cents" called? How do you pronounce the last character? Thank you.
円 sounds like "yen" when it comes after ん. Is this my imagination, a glitch in the text-to-speech, or actually how it would be pronounced?
(I know "ye" isn't a phoneme in Modern Japanese, but it could be an allophone for all I know.)
So as far as I know, "Yen" is generally said after ん because it rolls off the tongue better, but when in doubt it isn't like you'll be wrong to say "En" instead.
Is 円 pronounced as "yen" or "en"? It feels like the narrator says yen instead of "en"
So I face the same problem I faced as a child once again... 万(萬) always confused me as a child because in English, the unit Thousand, only upgrades to a Million after Ten Thousand and Hundred Thousand. But in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the unit changes straight from Thousand to 万, and skips through the Tens and Hundreds of Thousands... Even now, as a 23 year old, this confuses me to no end
いいえ。 It's supposed to sound like いちまん (Duolingo's text-to-speech isn't great..)
In America it is customary to write 10,000. Duolingo should accept this.
Is there a way to turn off "you have a typo thing" because I thought it meant 1000 yen but IT thought I'm correct. I should be wrong
Is the pronunciation 'en' or 'yen'? Even though it is written as en, why the yen sound comes from nowhere?
Someone has probably already asked this somewhere else, but the pronunciation of "yen" in Japanese -- it's like "en"?
I go to Korea and Japan interchangeably and always confuse the won and yen amounts. This is perfect.
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You missed to translate です which means "(it) is." Also "ten thousand yen" - not "thousands."
So money doesn't use a counter at all or is it omitted here because I must assume it's talking about a price tag and not an amount of money?
