In earlier posts we discussed about time of the day and days of the week in japanese. I’m sure you’re now interested in knowing how to write months in japanese. You’ll notice that in japanese, there is no special word for months. These months are named as per counter value 1 to 12 which makes it easy for you to write and remember the names of month. You need to add the suffix – gatsu to ordinal number and you’ll get name of the month. Easy isn’t it ? Yes.
- January 1月 (ichigatsu)
- February 2月 (nigatsu)
- March 3月 (sangatsu)
- April 4月 (shigatsu)
- May 5月 (gogatsu)
- June 6月 (rokugatsu)
- July 7月 (shichigatsu)
- August 8月 (hachigatsu)
- September 9月 (kugatsu)
- October 10月 (jūgatsu)
- November 11月 (jūichigatsu)
- December 12２月 (jūnigatsu)
So you see how easy it is to write and remember the months in japanese ? You can start practicing by writing the months in your sentence to see if you can remember the month names. In order to remember numbers effectively, you need to learn how to remember 1-12 number effectively in japanese. Once you learn this then calling any name in japanese is very easy.