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"How much is it?"
Translation:それはいくらですか？
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Fun fact: Ikura = 幾ら
It's normally written using hiragana though.
(Regardless, we should really work to get duo settled on using kanji in its lessons.)
Unless they teach it instead of just throwing it at us like they have I disagree.
I think FURAGANA would be the best... This is the ideal compromise between kana and kanji... At least for beginners...
Isn't it spelled Furigana? And how? I've never seen furigana written on computer screen, let alone mobile phone. If you know where, do. It would help us here a lot, what with the irregular readings.
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You know how when you click on a japanese kanji you get the translation? They should just add hiragana reading there. We already get both when clicking on English words.
What is furigana, I've seen people talking about it, but I still don't know?
Furigana is the prctice of placing smaller hirigana characters above kanji (like pronunciation notes)
wouldnt this translate to "how much is that?" instead of "how much is it?"
me too and im trhing to do two lessons in a row without mistakes. im salty.
excuse me. why js there a それ. that would translate to "how much is that" but the sentence asks for "how much is it". im sorry but im pretty salty.
The これ、それ、あれ、distinctions here are subtle so can see why it's confusing some. The question is "How much is 'IT'?," basically implying you are pointing or looking at something close to the person you are asking, which is what それ is for. Think something behind a glass counter at a bakery or when at a ticket booth, それ doesn't mean the word "IT" translated but the use here is closest to the use in English in these kind of circumstances.
これ would be "How much is 'THIS'?" as directed something close to you instead. And あれ would be something further away from both of you so more like "How much is 'THAT'?," which is another question also asked in this same section.
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More precisely, いくつ is asking for a number. As in, "how many?" You only use it for countable items. So you couldn't use it to ask about a quantity of water, or a quantity of rice. Unless you genuinely wanted to ask someone how many grains of rice there were in a bowl. But you might not get a helpful answer to that.
I'm noticing a trend and I'm wondering if it's right. いくつ has been used for "how many things?" and いくら has been for "how much money?" Now i learned that つ is used as a counter for things, so does that mean that ら is a counter for money? And does that mean that いく means "an unknown number"? Like you can put いく next to any counter and it will mean "how much/many of that thing"? I hope this makes sense.
When I studied Japanese back in college, I think "ikura" was usually preceded by "o". Is that grammatically correct, and if so is it more polite?
when I was in japan recently i wanted to buy a teacup. I asked the lady working there これはいくらですか？ and she rang it up for me and got the price for it. Did I say it wrong? Why use それ and not これ here?
"これはいくらですか?" translate to "how much is this?" while "それはいくらですか?" translate to "how much is that?"
