日本に, 四か月いました
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"I was in Japan for four months."
MrWabu
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That made me laugh.
Automatic translation right?
undrentide
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As other posters mentioned, 月 means either the moon or the month. (Maybe something to do with lunar calendar .)
「ヶ月」 is used to count the duration of month as Damicci indiated.
e.g.
１ヶ月 = for one month
２ヶ月 = for two months
It can be used for age, too.
この赤ちゃんは４ヶ月です。
This baby is four months old.
If you want to emphasize the "duration", you can add 間
e.g.
１ヶ月間 = for one month
２ヶ月間 = for two months
「ヶ月」 is used to count the duration of month as Damicci indiated.
e.g.
１ヶ月 = for one month
２ヶ月 = for two months
It can be used for age, too.
この赤ちゃんは４ヶ月です。
This baby is four months old.
If you want to emphasize the "duration", you can add 間
e.g.
１ヶ月間 = for one month
２ヶ月間 = for two months
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BTW, ﾆ谷 is not incorrect when counting months. It's one of those rare "undecided" things left in Japanese.
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There are kanji that can be used, too, although this is not so common in modern usage.
I don't think I agree with you, Jimmy Seal. Granted it's been a long time since I formally this stuff, but I don't think it's incorrect to have ４ケ月 and the others you put. I do think, however, that they are not nearly so common, and yeah, a bit strange perhaps.
Personally, I always use ４ヶ月 except when I change it for stylistic purposes.
I don't think I agree with you, Jimmy Seal. Granted it's been a long time since I formally this stuff, but I don't think it's incorrect to have ４ケ月 and the others you put. I do think, however, that they are not nearly so common, and yeah, a bit strange perhaps.
Personally, I always use ４ヶ月 except when I change it for stylistic purposes.
JimmySeal
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ヶ is not katakana; it's an abbreviation of 箇, and so it's small for a reason, so arbitrarily replacing it with ケ or ヵ makes no sense, though the misuse of these is so widespread that the IME happily offers them as options.
It's never technically wrong to use katakana in place of hiragana, and that's why 四カ月 is ok, but still very odd and it only occurs because of the influence of the above mistakes.
It's never technically wrong to use katakana in place of hiragana, and that's why 四カ月 is ok, but still very odd and it only occurs because of the influence of the above mistakes.
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Ah, you may have something there!
Perhaps your are right! Still, good luck trying to convince a native speaker that they're wrong when they do something like that!
I'm pretty sure that I've seen them all in actual usage, to be honest. Of course, on the other hand, if the 'wrong' usage becomes common enough it eventually becomes 'correct'. Such is the way of languages.
(I just hope--and I've seen this more times that I like to admit--that わ never replaces は as a particle. It seems rather vulgar to me for some reason...)
Perhaps your are right! Still, good luck trying to convince a native speaker that they're wrong when they do something like that!
I'm pretty sure that I've seen them all in actual usage, to be honest. Of course, on the other hand, if the 'wrong' usage becomes common enough it eventually becomes 'correct'. Such is the way of languages.
(I just hope--and I've seen this more times that I like to admit--that わ never replaces は as a particle. It seems rather vulgar to me for some reason...)
JimmySeal
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I've seen them all in actual use, too, sadly. But I've seen music store awnings that advertised "Bass's Guitar's Drum's Amp's" and God willing, that will never be considered correct English.
The particle は is universal enough that any time someone uses わ in place of it, it's either intentional, or a child or beginner non-native speaker. Hopefully.
The particle は is universal enough that any time someone uses わ in place of it, it's either intentional, or a child or beginner non-native speaker. Hopefully.
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I only wish that were true...I really do...
undrentide
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I always use ヶ月 and knew that it is also possible to write
箇月 か月 カ月
did not know one could use ケ月 as well... and was surprised to see it in the online dictionary!
かげつ【箇月／個月】の意味 - goo国語辞書
箇月 か月 カ月
did not know one could use ケ月 as well... and was surprised to see it in the online dictionary!
かげつ【箇月／個月】の意味 - goo国語辞書
