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30 san-jū
40 yon-jū
50 go-jū
60 roku-jū
70 nana-jū
80 hachi-jū
90 kyū-jū

100 hyaku

Recall the classifier -nen-sei for grade in school. Similarly, -ji is the classifier for

hours and -fun/-pun for naming and counting minutes. Note that -fun becomes -
pun after the numbers one, three, six, ten and the question word.
In telling time, the hour precedes minutes. So, 9:10 is ku-ji jup-pun. You can
also attach han “half an hour”, e.g., ku-ji-han for 9:30. Note which alternating
forms are used for the numbers four, seven, and nine when -ji or -fun/pun is

attached.
4:04 yo-ji yon-pun
7:07 shichi-ji nana-fun

9:09 ku-ji kyū-fun
To ask what time it is, ima “now” is commonly used in Japanese, as shown in

the dialogue.

Clock Time
Hours Minutes

1 ichi-ji ip-pun
2 ni-ji ni-fun

3 san-ji san-pun
4 yo-ji yon-pun

5 go-ji go-fun
6 roku-ji rop-pun

7 shichi-ji nana-fun
8 hachi-ji hachi-fun

9 ku-ji kyū-fun

10 jū-ji jup-pun
11 jū-ichi-ji