COUNTING LESSON SEVEN
There is a second way to count the numbers from one to ten in Japanese, the older way. These other more traditional words for the numbers are used in the case of some counting
classifiers, though here we will only cover one counting classifier that uses all of the traditional numbers. The classifier is 
is used to count
"things".
| ARABIC | HIRAGANA | KANJI |
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| 1 thing |   |  |
| 2 things |   |  |
| 3 things |   |  |
| 4 things |  |  |
| 5 things |  |  |
| 6 things |  |  |
| 7 things |  |  |
| 8 things |  |  |
| 9 things |   |  |
| 10 things |  |  |
Beyond that, merely use the normal counting numbers you have learned, without the to continue counting "things".
Another thing that can be counted using these numbers is years of age. is not used when counting years, you would only use the beginning part.
After ten, you merely use the normal number system to count years of age, with one exception. 20 years of age is
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