Counting Minutes Reference Sheet

COUNTING MINUTES IN JAPANESE

For most counters in Japanese, numbers 1 through 10 are irregular. (However, the irregularity usually follows a pattern for those numbers.) Here is how you count minutes from 1 through 10 in Japanese.

1	いっぷん		ippun
2	にふん		nifun
3	さんぷん		sanpun
4	よんぷん		yonpun	(note: よんふん yonfun is also OK.)
5	ごふん		gofun
6	ろっぷん		roppun
7	ななふん		nanafun
8	はっぷん		happun
9	きゅうふん		kyūfun
10	じゅっぷん		juppun