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IF 150. The enumerative form is used in counting over things, e.g. a bundle of paper money, linen to be sent to the wash, etc.
i 151. Though the native Japanese numerals above "ten" are now obsolete for ordinary purposes, note that hatachi, the old native word for "twenty," is still used in the sense of "twenty years of age," and that chi, "a thousand," and yorozn, " a myriad," i.e. " ten thousand," are still retain- ed in proper names and in a few idioms, e.g. Chi-shtma t "the Thousand Isles," i.e. "the Kurile Islands ;" Yorozu- ya, a favourite shop-name, probably originating in the fact of many sorts of articles being exposed for sale.
11" 152. The set of numerals borrowed from the Chinese is:
1 ichi, rarely itsu 6 roku, rarely riku
2 ni 7 shicJii
3 san 8 Jiachi
4 shi 9 kit, rarely kyu
5 go 10 jil
100 hyaku 1,000 sen 10,000 man or ban
All the others are formed by combining these, thus :
11 jil-ichi 20 ni -jil 29 ni-ju-ku
12 jii-ni 21 ni-jn-ichi 30 san-ju
13 jii-san 22 ni-ju-ni 40 shi-ju
14 ju-shi 23 ni-ju-san 50 go-jil
1 5 ju-g 2 4 ni-ju-shi 60 roku-jil
16 ju-roku 25 ni-ju-go 70 shtchi-jil
17 jil-shichi 26 ni-ju-roku 80 hachi-jil
18 jil-hachi 27 ni-jil-shlchi 90 kn-ju
19 jil-ku 28 ni-jil-hachi 100 ip-pyaku (for
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