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The full sentence, which I had to learn was:

> わたしは ろくしゅうかんまえに にほんに きました

But I don't understand the meaning of the "-kan" that follows ろくしゅう Can anyone
please enlighten me when and why I have to use that suffix?
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suffixes time
Which form should be used: ろくしゅうかん or ろくしゅう?
The かん here is 間 in kanji, and this is used as a suffix to refer to a span of
time. ろくしゅう in your sentence is spelled 六週 in kanji and means "six weeks", but
in a way that is more ambiguous than the English. Various suffixes can be
added on the end to make things more specific, like 目{め} to mean "the sixth
week", or 分{ぶん} to indicate six weeks' worth of something, or 間{かん} for a span
of time. Have a look partway down [the Weblio entry for
間](http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E9%96%93), for sense 1 under the かん reading
for some examples of how this かん is used.
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