"It took six days."

Translation: 六日かかりました。

[Nivkotzer]

There's no audio in this exercises so I don't kkow how the kanji sounds

[Lindsey1151188]

六日　むいか

[Nivkotzer]

Thanks! :)

[j3pwalrus]

In this context, would it not be ろくにち, as we're expressing an elapsed period of time, rather than a specific date?

[ChimoMincc]

むいか can mean the sixth or six days

[Sasankos]

Really?

[IsolaCiao]

From jisho.org:

六日

むいか

1. sixth day of the month​

４月５日か６日に会っていただけませんか。Would it be possible to set up a meeting with us on April 5 or 6?

2. six days​

聖書によれば、神は６日で世界を創られた。According to the Bible, God made the world in six days.

But if I look up "rokunichi":

Sorry, couldn't find anything matching ろくにち or rokunichi.

[DaveFolan]

Yeah, it's not very helpful.

[andolea1]

六日 should be presented as one button. So that one can learn the pronunciation むいか. It doesn't help to hear ろく and ひ。

[ztfU5]

No , Ron is right. ついたち is used for the first day of a month etc where as いちにちい is one day

[BlueRaja1]

いちにち*

[IsolaCiao]

六日かかります (muika kakarimasu) - It takes 6 days. This sentence is counting days, not saying that it is the 6th of the month. If we're counting days, then it should be いちにち, not ついたち.

[AliaSensei]

This should really use 六日間(むいかかん) to denote the length of time

[kaylovessasuke]

You are rught but both 六日 and 六日間 are fine for this sentense. I def use 六日 myself. You have to use 間 when you use the words 'weeks' or 'hours' like 一週間 or 二時間 but you don't need for 'seconds', 'minuets', 'months' and 'years' as 10秒、5分、3ヶ月、４年 even when you talk about the length or period of time(^o^)

[Wayne427822]

Oh Japanese, you do my head in.

[ronCYA]

一日 ついたち

二日 ふつか

三日 みっか

四日 よっか

五日 いつか

六日 むいか (note that this is not actually a great way to say "six days"!)

七日 なのか

八日 よおか

九日 ここのか

十日 とおか

二十日 はつか

[HikariTennyo]

Why is muika not a gr8 way to say 6 days?

[KevinMerck1]

I guess we'll never get an answer

[IsolaCiao]

If you ask a Japanese person how to say "6 days", I expect they'll answer "muika".

From HiNative:

「5月6日」の「6日」と、「6日間」の「6日」は、どちらも「むいか」と読みます。
日付の読み方と期間の読み方はほとんど同じですが、「1日」だけは異なります。日付は「ついたち」、期間は「いちにち」です。

My translation:

The ６日 in ５月６日 and the ６日 in ６日間 are both read as むいか (muika).

The reading of dates and the reading of time periods are almost always the same, except for １日. For dates it's read ついたち (tsuitachi) and for a time period it's read as いちにち (ichinichi).

Here's another native speaker saying "muika" and here's another one.

[msssima]

Wow thank you, i even understood the original))

[testmoogle]

* 八日 = ようか

[Turigamot]

You have 一日 wrong as it should be いちにち

[impromptu_stdio]

One means one day the other means first day. Its the only one that has a seperate word for each.

[impromptu_stdio]

Not sure why everyone is downvoting you instead of simply pointing out your mistake to you.

[IsolaCiao]

Turigamot is correct, if the sentence was "it takes one day", it would be 一日かかります (ichinichi kakarimasu), not tsuitachi. This sentence is counting days, not stating dates.

[Sashapwn]

What is a good way to say 'six days'?

[Rouni7]

My imei spat out 掛かりました。Is that kanji wrong, or just not to be used in this context?

[IsolaCiao]

I don't think it's completely wrong, but it's unusual.

From jisho.org:

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) ​Usually written using kana alone, See also 時間がかかる