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Your Textbook Taught You the Days of the Week Wrong. Well, Too Long.

Name: Your Textbook Taught You the Days of the Week Wrong. Well, Too Long.
Uploaded: 2026-08-25T14:00:00Z
Duration: 28 s
Description: Learn to say 金曜 (kin'you) — Friday (casual, dropping the last part of the full word). A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

To say Friday (casual, dropping the last part of the full word) in Japanese, say 金曜 (kin'you).

Your app drilled you on getsuyoubi, kayoubi, suiyoubi. In Japan almost nobody says the whole thing.

金曜 kin'you Friday (casual, dropping the last part of the full word)

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In this video

月曜、火曜、水曜、木曜、金曜、土曜、日曜。 getsuyou, kayou, suiyou, mokuyou, kin'you, doyou, nichiyou. Monday to Sunday, the way people actually say them.
金曜、飲みに行く? kin'you, nomi ni iku? “Wanna grab a drink Friday?” No long youbi in sight.

Kanji in this phrase

月曜: げつよう
火曜: かよう
水曜: すいよう
木曜: もくよう
金曜: きんよう
土曜: どよう
日曜: にちよう
月曜日: げつようび
金曜日: きんようび

Why this phrase

Every Japanese textbook makes you memorize the full form of the days of the week, the ones ending in the long youbi sound. In everyday conversation Japanese people almost always drop the final bi and say the short form. The video runs the frame 'In Japan we don't say [long form], we say [short form]' across the week: getsuyoubi becomes getsuyou (Mon), kayoubi to kayou (Tue), suiyoubi to suiyou (Wed), mokuyoubi to mokuyou (Thu), kin'youbi to kin'you (Fri), doyoubi to doyou (Sat), nichiyoubi to nichiyou (Sun). Then it shows the short form in a real sentence like 'kin'you, nomi ni iku?' (wanna grab a drink Friday?). Beginner and tourist friendly. The one takeaway: drop the last bi, just say the you.