How do you say "How many times a day should I take this?" in Japanese?

Name: The Japanese Cold Medicine Box Is All Kanji. One Question Gets You the Dose.
Uploaded: 2026-08-13T10:05:00Z
Duration: 32 s
Description: Learn to say これ、一日何回飲めばいいですか？ (kore, ichinichi nankai nomeba ii desu ka?) — How many times a day should I take this?. A 30-second Japanese lesson for travelers from Kōfuku.

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The Japanese Cold Medicine Box Is All Kanji. One Question Gets You the Dose.

To say How many times a day should I take this? in Japanese, say これ、一日何回飲めばいいですか？ (kore, ichinichi nankai nomeba ii desu ka?).

You're at the drugstore counter holding a box you can't read a single line of. There's one question worth asking, and it isn't what's in it.

これ、一日何回飲めばいいですか？ kore, ichinichi nankai nomeba ii desu ka? How many times a day should I take this?

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Kanji in this phrase

一日: いちにち
一日何回: いちにちなんかい
一日三回: いちにちさんかい
食後: しょくご
飲めば: のめば
飲んで: のんで

Why this phrase

A Japanese drugstore role-play. Kofuku plays the traveller holding an unreadable box of cold medicine, Hana plays the pharmacist behind the counter. Kofuku asks これ、一日何回飲めばいいですか, and Hana answers 一日三回、食後に飲んでください, holding up three fingers. Lots of boxes are 一日三回食後, but plenty are twice a day, so the point is the reusable 一日何回 frame plus 食後, which is printed on nearly every Japanese medicine box. Always check the box or ask the pharmacist.