It's so foggy that I can't see the road... NUMBERS!

I appear to have a missing water bottle problem. The worst part though is that it doesn't even belong to me--I was borrowing it! Hopefully I can find it soon. I still need to catch up to be able to put stuff in these so my apologize on the delay, trust me, I don't want to be behind!
I found the water bottle! Don't worry; it is safe and cared for in the comfort of my kitchen. I don't like being tired and that's exactly what I am right now but when a job is unfinished it needs to be completed... and now seems to be the elusive "eventually" I've been speaking about for the last month. Of course it's at eleven o'clock at night, why get a healthy amount of sleep? No one seems to anyway these days.

Some numbers that I have already shown in entries previous have more than one name. Why do they have more than one name you ask? Well that's because each pronunciation is used in specific situations! Sometimes they go easy on you and either way is acceptable.

Rei or zero-zero
Shi or yon-four
Nana or shichi-seven
Kyuu or ku-nine

Vocabulary (Numbers):

Juu-ichi-11

Juu-ni-12

Juu-san-13

Juu-yon-14

Juu-go-15

Juu-roku-16

Juu-nana-17

Juu-hachi-18

Juu-kyuu-19

Notice how numbers from 11-19 are formed by putting the correct number after "ten" or "juu". Example:
14 is juu plus yon which makes is juuyon.

Vocabulary (Numbers):

Ni-juu-20

San-juu-30

Yon-juu-40

Go-juu-50

Roku-juu-60

Nana-juu-70

Hachi-juu-80

Kyuu-juu-90

There is a similarity in process here as there is in numbers 11-19 but instead of placing the correct numbers after, we are looking for the ones that go before juu.

Example:

70 is Nana plus juu or seven tens.

Vocabulary (Numbers):

Hyaku-100

Nihyaku-200

Sanbyaku-300

Yonhyaku-400

Gohyaku-500

Roppyaku-600

Nanahyaku-700

Happyaku-800

Kyuuhyaku-900

See how most of the hundreds are the base number plus a hundred with the exceptions of 300, 600 and 800. So this basic principal holds firm.

Example:

400 is yon plus hyaku or four hundreds.

Vocabulary (Even more numbers):

Sen-thousand

Man-ten thousand

Juu-man-Hundred thousand

Hyaku-man-Million

Sen-man-ten million

Oku-hundred million

It's kind of fun that they have "man" in their numbers, even if it's not translated to our version of man. I wonder if there's a Sen-woman or a juu-woman?

Templates:

___(number)___wa ___(lower number)___ no ato ni kimasu: _____ is after _____

___(number)____ wa ____(higher number)____ no mae ni kimasu: _____ is in front of _____

Nansai desu ka - How old are you?

Watashi wa ___(age)__sai desu - I am ___(age)____.

Examples:

Juugo(15) wa juuyon(14) no ato ni kimasu-Fifteen is after fourteen. (14, 15)

Juukyuu(19) wa nijuu(20) no mae ni kimasu-Ninteen is in front of twenty. (19, 20)

Remember that mae is translated to "front"

Ato ni refers to a specific point in time like at the end of an event--or in this case, sentence.

Or, a different way of putting it;
Mae ni - before something
Ato ni/Ato de - Ato ni: specific point in time after at event, Ato de: refers to a point after an event in general (These are interchangeable most of the time.)

Sai is added to a number when refering to age so when I say I am "kyuuhyaku-rokujuu-yonsai" that means I am "nine-hundered-sixty-four years old".

Hey, you never know; it is the internet after all!

Brooke.