Learning Japanese - Lesson 3 - Days of the Month and Days of the Week

For days in the month, simply add [-nichi] after the number, so:

11th day of the month - jyuu-ichi-nichi
12th day of the month - jyuu-ni-nichi

and the rest, goes on.


4-yokka
8-youka
14- jyuu-yokka
24-ni-jyuu-yokka

3-mikka
6-muika

2-futsuka
5-itsuka
10-tooka
20-hatsuka

7-nanoka
9-kokonoka (just imagine a coconut tree)

1-tsuitachi

For the days of the week, simply add [-youbi] at the end

• Monday
• getsuyoubi
• Tuesday
• kayoubi
• Wednesday
• suiyoubie
• Thursday
• mokoyoubi
• Friday
• kinyoubi
• Saturday
• doyoubi
• Sunday
• nichiyoubi