Days, Weeks, Months of the Year in Japanese

Last time, I posted about numbers. You can check it here: Lets talk about numbers

For today’s post, I will write about the Days of the week and month. As well as the Months of the Year.

I. Let’s start with the days of the month. As usual, I will not be going to use the Kanji for each days but its Hiragana equivalent.

Days	HIRAGANA	Romaji
1^st	ついたち	Tsuitachi
2^nd	ふつか	Futsuka
3^rd	みっか	Mikka
4^th	よっか	Yokka
5^th	いつか	Itsuka
6^th	むいか	Muika
7^th	なのか	Nanoka
8^th	ようか	Youka
9^th	ここのか	Kokonoka
10^th	とおか	Tooka
11^th	じゅういち	Juuichi
12^th	じゅうに	Juuni
13^th	じゅうさん	Juusan
14^th	じゅうよっか	Juuyokka
15^th	じゅうご	Juugo
16^th	じゅうろく	Juuroku
17^th	じゅうしち	Juushichi
18^th	じゅうはち	Juuhachi
19^th	じゅうく	Juuku
20^th	はつか	Hatsuka
21^st	にじゅういち	Nijuuichi
22^nd	にじゅうに	Nijuuni
23^rd	にじゅうさん	Nijuusan
24th	にじゅうよっか	Nijuuyokka
25^th	にじゅうご	Nijuugo
26^th	にじゅうろく	Nijuuroku
27^th	にじゅうしち	Nijuushichi
28^th	にじゅうはち	Nijuuhachi
29^th	にじゅうく	Nijuuku
30^th	さんじゅう	Sanjuu
31^st	さんじゅういち	Sanjuuichi

When using the days of the month, include the word ‘にち’ after each days. ‘にち’ means day in Japanese. But, not all days need to have にち. The first 10 days, 14^th, 20^th and 24^th day don’t need にち when reading, writing and using it.

Example:

6^th day of the month – むいか

11^th day of the month – じゅういちにち

20^th day of the month – はすか

29^th day of the month – にじゅうくにち

II. Next, will be the Months of the year. It is easy to remember the months in Japanese because we will be using the Japanese counting numbers plus the word month in Japanese. がつis the word that is included when reading the months of the year in Japanese. がつ means month (also moon when read as つき).

Months	Hiragana	Romaji
January	いちがつ	Ichigatsu
February	にがつ	Nigatsu
March	さんがつ	Sangatsu
April	しがつ	Shigatsu
May	ごがつ	Gogatsu
June	ろくがつ	Rokugatsu
July	しちがつ	Shichigatsu
August	はちがつ	Hachigatsu
September	くがつ	Kugatsu
October	じゅうがつ	Juugatsu
November	じゅういちがつ	Juuichigatsu
December	じゅうにがつ	Juunigatsu

III. Next is the days of the week. When reading the days of the week, always include the Japanese word that indicates week which is ようび. ようび means week.

Days of the week	Hiragana	Romaji
Monday	げつようび	Getsuyoubi
Tuesday	かようび	Kayoubi
Wednesday	すいようび	Suiyoubi
Thursday	もくようび	Mokuyoubi
Friday	きんようび	Kinyoubi
Saturday	どようび	Doyoubi
Sunday	にちようび	Nichiyoubi

Examples:

March 20, Tuesday – さんがつ　はつか、かようび

April 9, Friday – しがつ　ここのか、きんようび

May 26, Wednesday – ごがつ　にじゅうろくにち、すいようび

Normally, months and days are written in Kanji but because I haven’t featured Kanji lessons yet, that’s why, we will stick to writing Hiragana.

You can also download the days, weeks and months:

>> PDF Copy of Days, weeks and months of the year

That’s all for today.

See Yah!