Learn how to use the counter 皿 (Sarah)
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| Do you know how to count square meters? I'll |
| tell you the answer at the end of this lesson! |
| Hi everybody! I'm Alisha. |
| こんにちは、 Yamamori です。 |
| Welcome to Japanese Counters for Beginners, where you'll learn how to count all sorts of different objects in Japanese! |
| Yamamori-sensei, what counter will we learn in this lesson? |
| 皿 |
| First, let's take a look at what sorts of objects can be counted with the counter. |
| When you count dishes and plates, you can use the counter... |
| 皿 |
| This counter word actually means "dish" or plate. You can use this counter to count |
| plates, and food on the plates. It doesn't have to be cooked food; when you count plates |
| or platefuls of something, you can use this counter. A plate of mandarin oranges, for example. |
| Okay, let's count numbers 1 to 10 with this counter. |
| 一皿 |
| 二皿 |
| 三皿 |
| 四皿 |
| 五皿 |
| 六皿 |
| 七皿 |
| 八皿 |
| 九皿 |
| 十皿 |
| Did you notice that there were some numbers that sounded different to how they usually |
| Sound? |
| Counting 1, 2 and 3 dishes takes a special form. When you read the number 10, |
| you should be careful. |
| For number one, it's 'hito-sara' |
| For number two, it's 'futa-sara' |
| For number three, it's 'mi-sara'. |
| For number ten, it's 'ju-ssara', not 'juu-sara.' |
| Okay. Now let's take a look at some sample sentences that use this counter. |
| トマトを二皿買いました。 |
| “I bought 2 plates of tomatoes.” |
| お寿司を１０皿食べました。 |
| “I ate 10 plates of sushi.” |
| 餃子を三皿ください。 |
| “Can I have 3 plates of dumplings?” |
| Now it's time for a quiz. I'm going to ask you a question in English. Answer it in Japanese. Are you ready? Make sure you use the right counter. |
| How many plates of sushi did you eat? |
| お寿司を七皿食べました。 |
| How many plates of apples did you buy? |
| りんごを四皿買いました。 |
| When we express the area of a room, Japanese people use the special counter for square meters. Do you know what it is? The answer is... |
| 一畳 |
| This counter means "tatami mat"; in Japanese, the size of rooms was traditionally measured |
| by how many tatami mats they had. |
| For example, この部屋は、６畳です。 |
| And this means "this room is as large as six tatami mats". |
| Okay, everyone. That's it for this lesson. |
| I'll see you next time! |
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