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Learn Japanese: kakaru - to take time to do something

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/Using 〜間 to indicate duration
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kakaru

かかるkakaru

to take (time to do something)

kakaru

Breakdown & Usages Conjugations

Usages of kakaru

三さん十じゅっ分ぷん間かん　かかります。sanjuppunkan kakarimasu.

It takes 30 minutes.

四よ時じ間かん半はん　かかりました。yojikanhan kakarimashita.

It took four and a half hours.

一いっ週しゅう間かん　ぐらい　かかりました。isshuukan gurai kakarimashita.

It took about a week.

Nihon-shiki romanizationwatasi ha tyuugoku kara kimasita

Hepburn romanizationwatashi wa chuugoku kara kimashita

あの　映えい画が　は、　二に時じ間かん　ぐらい　かかります。

あの　映えい画が　は、　二に時じ間かん　ごろ　かかります。

ano eiga wa, nijikan gurai kakarimasu.
ano eiga wa, nijikan goro kakarimasu.

That movie takes about two hours.

都と心しん　まで　電でん車しゃ　で　三さん十じゅっ分ぷん　かかります。toshin made densha de sanjuppun kakarimasu.

It takes thirty minutes by train to get to the city center.

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