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Ignolopi

Konnichiwa,

I have had very little practice with large numbers in Japanese, and they tend to confuse me when I get into 10,000 and higher. (And for some reason my Japanese teacher likes to put them on quizzes though we never go over them in class....)

Do I have these right?

23800 = ni man san zen happyaku
100300 = juu man sanbyaku
256900 = juu go man roku sen kyuu hyaku
3611000 = sanbyaku rokujuu ichi man issen
15070000 = issen gohyaku nana man
5071010 = gohyaku nana man issen juu

Also, I can figure the numbers out better if I can see them, but our quizzes are spoken -- if people would be so kind as to give me some more numbers (and their meanings) so I could practice with my sisters, that would be much appreciated!

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

~Mai

Tobberoth

You got them all right except 256900 = juu go man roku sen kyuu hyaku, you forgot the "ni" at the start.

Ignolopi

Glad to hear that, thank you!

Richard

一億　いちおく 100 000 000 a hundred million

I remember this by thinking that Japan's population is just over an oku.

Aodh

一兆いっちょう is one trillion (1,000,000,000,000)

nate

It might help to know that large numbers behave differently between American English and Japanese.

Large numbers in AE are base-1000, in other words the actual unit changes every square of a 1000 after 1000.
Large numbers in Japanese are base-10000, unit change occurs every square of 10000 after 10000.

The trick is to think in terms of where you'd put the comma. AE is every three 0's, Japanese is every four.

AE-
10 ten
100 hundred
1,000 thousand
10,000 ten thousand
1,000,000 milllion
1,000,000,000 billion

Japanese-
10 十 (jyuu)
100 百 (hyaku)
1000 千 (sen)
1,0000 万 (man)
10,0000 十万 (jyuuman)
1,0000,0000 億 (oku)

Ignolopi

Thanks for your help, I think I'm getting it!

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