年別アーカイブ：2023年

Happy birthday! It is one of the most important phrases for celebration. Everybody definitely says this phrase when they are invited to a birthday party. It is totally okay to say Happy Birthday in English to Japanese people because they are familiar with the phrase. But there are some Japanese happy birthday phrases that are good for certain situations and relationships. So let’s learn about them and have a great celebration with your friends! Casual Way of Saying Happy Birthday お誕生日おめでとう！ お誕生日おめでとう！/otanjoubi-omedetou!/ This is the most common phrase for celebrating with family and friends. お誕生日(otanjoubi) means a birthday. おめでとう(omedetou) is ...

Various Japanese fish counters You see many sea animals everywhere in Japan. They can be encountered at supermarkets, fish markets, travel advertisements, and TV shows. As you know, Japanese people love eating sea animals like fish, octopus, and squid because sea animals have been essential food for Japanese people since the old era. Japanese has so many ways to count fish that Japanese people sometimes make mistakes on which counter to use. We will introduce eight ways to count fish in this article. The first fish counter you should remember is 匹 (hiki). A basic Japanese counter for fish “匹 ...

Basic animal counters in Japanese How should I count this animal in Japanese...? You might feel it’s difficult to count animals in Japanese because the counter changes with the type of animal. However, there is a simple rule for counting animals in Japanese. We’ll share the basic counters: 匹(hiki), 頭(tou), 羽(wa) in this article. With these counters, you can learn how to count animals from mise to whales. Let’s begin! ～匹（hiki/piki/biki） The most common and useful Japanese counter for animals is the 匹(hiki) counter. It is used for small animals like dogs, cats, mice, sheep, fish, and insects. The animals ...