"七日かかります。"

Translation: It takes seven days.

[hectorlqr]

To create everything?

[ChadFaragh]

That's a week claim.

[Kokawa1]

Someone knows why the prononciation is "なのか" and not "ななか"?

[FatimaMusawy]

Numbers change when counting days

[Yalraurest]

But h'why does this change happen specifically here?

[JanniVV]

It's just one of the odd exceptions. There probably isn't a huge reason, it's just something that has to be accepted. There's even an alternative pronunciation of なぬか, so it's not even that odd

[Yalraurest]

I meant like the etymology

[-.-Lucky-.-]

Etymology doesn't have much to do with why languages develop exceptions. That usually has to do with the physiology of pronunciation: the grammatical way to pronounce a thing might be mildly physiologically staining, so over the years, native speaker will unconsciously take shortcuts that over time become the norm.

[developedby]

Seven days...

[AnthonyHa11]

I mean, the "whole crawling out of the TV and killing me" thing kinda sucks, but she's not a bad girl once you get to know her.

[ewpettus]

If you can get to know her in less than seven days

[TyrantRC]

７日【なの・か】

～日【か】counter for days (date)

more about days and months pronunciations here:

https://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-numbers-day-month-week.html

[Starlight662707]

Can you guys please ask Duolingo to please add the right pronunciation for the group of kanji letters forming a word instead of pronouncing character by character, we need to know how to pronounce the whole word together not the characters separated

[Robert602013]

I would upvote this so hard if i could give more than one upvote.

[ballpointcarrot]

Can someone explain how tge future tense differs? Figured this could be "it will take 7 days"...

[V2Blast]

Japanese doesn't distinguish between the present and future tense; it's all just the "non-past" tense.

[Nush_W]

The future tense doesn't differ (grammatically), so, without context, your translation is also correct.

[paulomatsui]

I just wrote that and it is correct. Or rather, it's another correct answer

[Logan500030]

Same.

[ronkisimo]

nanokakakarimas is this how it's pronounced?

[japanesekriggs]

Pretty much. Nanoka (7 days) kakarimasu (it will take).

[japanesekriggs]

Or as duolingo prefers, "it takes".

[chebeme]

So... a week?

[TyrantRC]

そうです、一週間かかります。

[terpis]

This will definitely get lost, but if anyone has trouble with memorizing different readings of numbers in dates, I recommend WaniKani. It teaches you kanji and vocabulary. It's free up to 3rd level and on the 2nd you learn dates. I'm not promoting, just genuinely trying to help fellow learners

[Cospefogo]

I second that. WANIKANI, google it. Started recently and it is a great tool!

[Patman750572]

Ive just gotten a few wrong in a row from saying "It will take ", "It would take", and "It takes ___".

[koichi81957]

"It will take seven days" is better, since it is implicitly a future statement

[Rodinia]

"How long does it take to walk from point A to point B?" "It takes seven days."
"It takes seven days to create a world."

[Zachary127037]

i wrote it takes 9 days by accident and it still counted it correct lol

[LexEvans0]

リング ((((；ﾟДﾟ)))))))

[steve9788]

Remove that damn "day" i misclicked it and it was incorrect

[eeegold]

kakaka