三さん年ねん
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Meanings
Noun
1. three years
2. third school year (e.g. of high school)
Other spellings
3さん年ねん
Kanji used
Pitch accent
さんねん
Used in vocabulary
桃もも栗くり三さん年ねん柿かき八はち年ねん
it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight
Expression
3さん年ねん生せい
third-year student; third-year pupil
Noun
Examples15
It is three years since he died.
John is not the man that he was three years ago.
My mother has been dead these three years.
The wife and son of the statesman died three years ago.
Bill joined our company three years ago.
I lived in Japan three years ago.