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- "二十日かかりました。"
"二十日かかりました。"
Translation:It took twenty days.
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It is correct. When using "x days", the pronounciation is the same as for the ranking numbers ("X-th day of the month"). Full table can be found here: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/date_time
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May someone help us about the use of the 2 pronunciations?
二十日 can be pronounced (はつか) or (にじゅうにち）
Are both pronunciation good in this case (number of day for a duration) or is there a problem in the audio?
It seems that [はつか] is the priority, besides that [にじゅうにち] is not wrong, it might sound childish. I read it at https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q11156225171
I can't figure it out either. Sounds like it starts with hatsu but it doesn't make sense.
20th, 20 days : はつか 20 years old : はたち There should be a story behind this number, but I don't know it sorry. ;)
It's the last remaining survival of the Old Japanese word for 20, pata plus the Old Japanese day counter -uka. Old Japanese didn't allow two vowels in a row (unlike Modern Japanese), so pata + -uka became patuka (modern pronunciation hatsuka)
Modern Japanese has borrowed the Chinese numbers, pretty much completely losing everything above 10 except in a handful of vestiges like this.
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number/ancient_japanese.html
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I've wondered about this number's story for ages, but just never got around to looking it up, lol
どうも有難うございます! : )
20 is when you would've been considered an adult. Since it's connected to a special age, it retains the native Japanese pronunciation of はつか/はたち etc. 14 and 24 aren't 'special' so much as that they use the number 4. In Japan, 4 and 9 are unlucky numbers because し「死」 means 'death' and く「苦」 means 'agony'. So, they are changed to native Japanese pronunciations to avoid the dual meanings and therefore 'bad luck'. し becomes よ/よん and く becomes ここの/きゅう. Even the number 7, which is considered lucky, is affected. It goes from しち (which as you guessed, is changed because of the し) to なな.
Of course, it all depends on the context the numbers are used in. Sometimes 7 is しち like when talking about time, and sometimes なな like 7 days / 7th day. Same for the other numbers. It's best to memorize the exceptions.
The speaker pronounced it にじゅにち during the question but pronounces it はつか here in the comments.
The comments one is right. There's a bug where the text to speech treats 「二十」and「日」as seperate words, instead of the compound word 「二十日」
二十日 is pronounced はつか. I can hear that fine when playing the audio in the discussion screen, but during the "lesson" the TTS voice pronounses it wrong: にじゅうにち. Reported.
After last update, the TTS reads "nijuunichi" instead of "hatsuka". Is this correct or should it be reported?
It sounds like the TTS reads the words 二, 十 and 日 as separate words instead of one.
I accidentally put "it lasted 20 days" and i know its wrong but what would that be out of curiosity
I believe that would be...
２０日 (はつか) かかりました
かかります is the present or future form (it lasts or it will last) and かかりました is the past form (it lasted).
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Something is wrong with this topic. After finishing the second lesson, I get no points and i can't pass to the next lesson. I see always the same lesson 2. The problem can be partially solved by passing a level test, but it is not what I want exactly.
It's the same for me. I found that I can bypass it by manually changing the number in the URL from a 2 to a 3, and then completing lesson 3 after that got it un-stuck just twice. I'm stuck again, but at least I can still change the URL to skip around and do some of the lessons, even though they don't credit.
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The recording sounds 'hatsuka kakarimashita' Is that the right pronunciation for 12 days? Sounds more like eight days. Some costume I might hve missed?
The first one is correct. There's a bug with the TTS and you should report it when it comes up again
