母(はは) hahaは wa私(わたし)の() watashino誕(たん)生(じょう)日(び) tanjoubiの noケーキ keekiに niろうそく rousokuを o１３ 13本(ほん) hon立(た)て()た() tateta。 My mother put 13 candles on my birthday cake. Literal Mother [topic-は] my birthday [possessive-の] cake [on-に] candles [object-を] thirteen-[counter-本] stood ろうそくを１３本立てた = 'stood up 13 candles.' 本 counts the candles (long/cylindrical objects). 立てる = to stand (something) up (transitive). familynumbers and countingcounter words (助数詞)
母(はは) hahaは wa私(わたし)の() watashino誕(たん)生(じょう)日(び) tanjoubiの noケーキ keekiに niろうそく rousokuを o１３ 13本(ほん) hon立(た)て()た() tateta。 My mother put 13 candles on my birthday cake. Literal Mother [topic-は] my birthday [possessive-の] cake [on-に] candles [object-を] thirteen-[counter-本] stood ろうそくを１３本立てた = 'stood up 13 candles.' 本 counts the candles (long/cylindrical objects). 立てる = to stand (something) up (transitive). familynumbers and countingcounter words (助数詞)