I keep running into things like 1-3 or a-d in my workbook but i can't figure
out how to read them aloud. Is it 1から3 sort of like in english? is it a
literal aダッシュd? something completely different? A google search only gives me
straight up numbers or tells me the dash is for elongating vowels. For the
sake of my internal monologue, please, I'm dyingggg
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How do you say numbers/letters in a skipped sequence or connected by a dash?
> I keep running into things like 1-3 or a-d in my workbook but i can't figure
> out how to read them aloud. Is it 1から3 sort of like in english?

Yes, いちからさん or エーからディー (or デー).

> is it a literal aダッシュd?

The - as part of a word is often called ハイフン in Japan, ダッシュ usually means to
hurry.

> A google search only gives me straight up numbers or tells me the dash is
> for elongating vowels.

The "long dash" called ちょうおん is used for elongating vowels as in the word for
"paper", ペーパー. You won't see Japanese people writing ペ-パ- for "paper" using a
short hyphen.
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