Today’s Kanji
九
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Meaning | nine |
Onyomi | きゅう(kyuu),く(ku) |
Kunyomi | ここの(kokono) |
Vocabulary
N5
九人 nine people きゅうにん
九月 September くがつ
九 ヶ月 nine months きゅうかげつ
九 つ nine (things) ここのつ
九日 the ninth day/ nine days ここのか
Example Sentences
1. 今日は、九月九日です。(きょうは、くがつここのかです。)
Today is September 9th.
今日は=As for today
九月=September
九日=ninth day
2. 大学に入学してから、九ヶ月が経ちました。(だいがくににゅうがくしてから、きゅうかげつがたちました。)
It has been 9 months since I entered college.
入学する is to enter school, (meaning to start school) and the destination of that is the college. So you use the particle に for the destination and takes 大学に。
して is the te-form of します。てform+から means “after doing 〜” as in 勉強してから寝ます, which means you do study first, then go to bed.
たちます with this Kanji does not mean “stand up”. This 経つ means “time passed”, and it takes the particle”が”.
3.九人の友達と、サークルを作りました。(きゅうにんのともだちと、サークルをつくりました)
I made a club with nine of my friends.
九人の友達 means nine of my friends.
サークル is clubs in school. There is another word, 部活(ぶかつ) for clubs at school, but this is more for serious clubs like the ones you have practice every day as oppose to サークル,which tends to be casual clubs.
つくりました is the past tense of つくる meaning “to make”.
4.キャンディが 九つあります。(キャンディがここのつあります)
There are nine candies.
キャンディ is just candies.
あります is used when you describe that something exists, and it takes the particle が for an object.
So if you want to say there is a chocolate, you say チョコレートがあります。
5. 昨日、三十九度の熱がありました。(きのう、さんじゅうくどのねつがありました)
I had a fever of 39℃ yesterday.
きのう=yesteday,
あります is previously explained as it is used when you describe that something exists, but this also can be used for “have”. So 熱があります means I have a fever.
度(ど) is a counter for temperature or degrees. 三十九(thirty nine) is pronounced as さんじゅうきゅう in many cases, but for fever, you pronounced it as さんじゅうく。