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How to read 一日 in these sentences?

yevgeny

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Hi,
I want to know how to pronounce the number of days and the number of times per day in the following sentences?

薬を三日分出してもらいました。
一日三回飲みます。

How should I read 三日 - みっか or さんにち?
The same question is for 一日 - ついたち or いちにち?

Also how can I combine both sentences into one?

Thanks,
Yevgeny
 
Kusuri wo mikka-bun dashite moraimashita.
Ichinichi sankai nomimasu.
 

Very easy to do. You need to make the second sentence a phrase modifying 薬 in the first sentence.

一日三回飲む薬を三日分出してもらいました。
 
How should I read 三日 - みっか or さんにち?
The same question is for 一日 - ついたち or いちにち?

三日 < Always read as みっか
一日 < Read as ついたち to mean 'the first day of a month'. Read as いちにち to mean 'a day'
 
One other way to combine the sentences would be as follows:

三日分出してもらった薬を一日三回飲みます。

Not as simple as Mr. Cash's solution, but it presents the information in the order you expressed it.
 

One other way to combine the sentences would be as follows:

三日分出してもらった薬を一日三回飲みます。

Now that's pretty straining, awkward, unnatural... It's perfect grammatically, though.
 
Thanks for your answers.
The book I am learning with just writes this text using kanji without explaining the reading.

BTW, is 分 in 三日分 used as a counter word for days (the same way as 本 is used as a counter for long cylindrical objects)?
 
No, it's not. 三日分 means "three days' worth of" so for example "薬を三日分ください" would mean, "Please give me three days worth of medicine.
 
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