Illustration: In a Japanese apartment kitchen, three consecutive monthly calendar sheets are clipped in a row above a small savings shelf. Each sheet contains a complete grid of empty day boxes, with no numerals or writing; the first two are detached sheets and the third remains attached to the calendar pad.

JLPT N5counterLevel estimated by Bebop

か月げつ

kagetsu

months

Follows a number to count months. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. ６ヶ月かげつ後私ごわたしたちは結婚けっこんした。

    Six months later we were married.

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  2. 約やく１ヶ月かげつです。

    It’s about one month.

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  3. 妊娠にんしん４か月げつです。

    I’m four months pregnant.

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Kanji in 月

  • 月month; moonOnゲツ・ガツKunつき

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