Illustration: At a Japanese after-school club, a child has arranged forty wooden animal counters into four straight rows of ten on a low table. Small gaps separate the rows, and every counter is fully visible.

JLPT N5numeralLevel estimated by Bebop

四よん十じゅう

yonjuu

forty

Example sentences

  1. ハリーはまだ４０歳さいだ。

    Harry is only 40.

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  2. このクラスには生徒せいとが４０人にんいる。

    There are forty students in our class.

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  3. トムは週しゅう40時間働じかんはたらきます。

    Tom works forty hours a week.

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Kanji in 四十

  • 四fourOnシKunよ・よつ・よん
  • 十tenOnジュウ・ジッ・ジュッKunとお・と・そ

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