Specific Time

1 o’clock ichiji 【一時】 1 minute ippun　【一分】
2 o’clock niji 【２時】 2 minutes nifun　【２分】.
3 o’clock sanji 3 minutes sanpun
4 o’clock yoji 4 minutes yonpun
5 o’clock goji 5 minutes gofun
6 o’clock rokuji 6 minutes roppun
7 o’clock shichiji 7 minutes nanafun
8 o’clock hachiji 8 minutes happun
9 o’clock kuji 9 minutes kyuufun
10 o’clock juuji 10 minutes juppun
11 o’clock juuichiji
12 o’clock juuniji

半 han half Goji han desu. It’s 5:30.
過ぎ sugi after Juuji juugofun sugi desu. It’s 10:15.
まえ mae before Juuji juugofun mae desu. It’s a quarter to ten..
午前 gozen a.m. Gozen hachiji desu. It’s 8 a.m.
午後 gogo p.m. Gogo juuji desu. It’s 10 p.m.
正午 shougo noon

Relative Time

朝 asa morning
昼 hiru noon
午後 gogo afternoon
夕方 yuugata evening
一昨日 ototoi day before yesterday
昨日 kinou, sakujitsu yesterday
今日 kyou today
明日 ashita tomorrow
明後日 asatte day after tomorrow
先々週 sensenshuu week before last
先週 senshuu last week
今週 konshuu this week
来週 raishuu next week
再来週 saraishuu week after next
先々月 sensengetsu month before last
先月 sengetsu last month
今月 kongetsu this month
来月 raigetsu next month
再来月 saraigetsu month after next
一昨年 ototoshi year before last
昨年 sakunen last year
去年 kyonen last year
今年 kotoshi this year
来年 rainen next year
再来年 sarainen year after next

Weekdays

月曜日 Monday getsuyoubi
火曜日 Tuesday kayoubi
水曜日 Wednesday suiyoubi
木曜日 Thursday mokuyoubi
金曜日 Friday kinyoubi
土曜日 Saturday doyoubi
日曜日 Sunday nichiyoubi

Months

The names of the Japanese months are simply named in number order. The numbers can be written either using Japanese characters or western number characters.

January 一月／1月 ichigatsu
February 二月／2月 nigatsu
March 三月／3月 sangatsu
April 四月／4月 shigatsu
May 五月／5月 gogatsu
June 六月／6月 rokugatsu
July 七月／7月 shichigatsu
August 八月／8月 hachigatsu
September 九月／9月 kugatsu
October 十月／10月 juugatsu
November 十一月／11月 juuichigatsu
December 十二月／12月 juunigatsu

Season, Time of Year

The Japanese people are often very proud of their four distinct seasons; summer, spring, winter and fall. But in fact they have also one more that is not counted as a real season – the rainy season – that is in June-July between spring and summer.

春 haru spring
夏 natsu summer
秋 aki autumn
冬 fuyu winter
梅雨 tsuyu rainy season
This page is based on “Some Notes on Japanese Grammar” published for your personal use, with the kind permission of Keith Smillie (http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~smillie/)

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