5.2. COUNTERS 255
- Weeks
Increasing the scale further, we reach weeks, indicated with. Like ,
on its own just refers to the yearly week, with referring to length of
duration as measured in weeks. The pronunciations are:
An example sentence would be:”This year’s festival is in week 18.”The words for the immediate past and future weeks are:the week before last
last week
this week
next week
the week after next- Weeks of duration
Like , has to be followed by to turn it into a durational counter:
”The exams are in about two weeks.”( ) - Calendar months
Like and , alone refers to idx:month@Japanese months of the year.
While western languages typically have named months, the Japanese – not
too long ago in fact – gave up on named months in favour of the Chinese
system of numbered months, resulting in: