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年ねん
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Meanings
Noun
1. year
Counter
2. counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school)
Noun
3. period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years) (Abbreviation)
Kanji used
年year
Pitch accent
ねん
Used in vocabulary
年ねん生せい
nth-year student; nth-year pupil
Suffix
一いっ昨さく年ねん
year before last
Noun
年ねん度ど
fiscal year (usu. April 1 to March 31 in Japan); financial year; academic year; school year; product year
Noun
一いっ周しゅう年ねん
one full year; first anniversary
Noun
年ねん月がっ日ぴ
date (year, month and day)
Noun
中ちゅう高こう年ねん
middle and old age
Noun
年ねん明あけ
expiration of a term of service
Noun
中ちゅう学がく年ねん
middle grades of primary school (third and fourth grades)
Noun
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
太たい陽よう年ねん
solar year; tropical year
Noun
一いち両りょう年ねん
(a) year or two
Noun
三さん十じゅう年ねん戦せん争そう
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
Noun
Examples784
The date on the calendar was September 23, 1964.
He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.
Japan today is not what it was even ten years ago.
I went to Obihiro two years ago.
I hadn't seen for ten years.
He went there ten years ago.