Comments on: Time & Day http://nihongo.anthonet.com/time-day/ Facing problem with your conversation with Japanese? Here's the Solution !!! Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: Abelardo Asdrúbal http://nihongo.anthonet.com/time-day/#comment-5322 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:14:02 +0000 http://nihongo.anthonet.com/archives/time-day/#comment-5322 There is a reason. BU and PU are derivatives of FU (look at HA column in the hiragana table). There is a rule depending on the silable that precedes it and says that you must change it to become more natural to pronounce the word. Try to say quickly Ichifun and Ippun, which one is easier to pronounce?
In other languages, as russian, they make the same change. It is based in soft and hard consonants and it is more clear if you compare TA with DA or SA with ZA – you make the same movement with mouth/tongue but the first one you don’t need the throat to make the sound. That’s why they share the same hiragana/katakana except for a small mark (tenten).

]]> By: Tony http://nihongo.anthonet.com/time-day/#comment-4824 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:24:34 +0000 http://nihongo.anthonet.com/archives/time-day/#comment-4824 Well, there is no reason and this is how it was designed.

]]> By: Ninja http://nihongo.anthonet.com/time-day/#comment-4823 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:06:47 +0000 http://nihongo.anthonet.com/archives/time-day/#comment-4823 Hey Tony, great site! I was wondering, why does it go

“ippun, nifun, sanbun, yonfun, gofun, roppun, nanafun, happun, kyuufun, juppun”

instead of

“ichifun, nifun, sanfun, yonfun, gofun, rokufun, nanafun, hachifun, kyuufun, juufun” ?

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