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Keyword
year
Info
FrequencyTop 100
Type
Kyōiku (1st grade) 
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KankenLevel 10
Heisig1114
Readings
ねん
(74%)
とし
(17%)
とせ
(5%)
ぞ
(1%)
Composed of
𠂉
cow head
㐄
almost a year
Mnemonic

Spending almost a year making an elaborate fake cow head — now that's basically a whole year wasted. What are you going to use that fake cow head for anyway, huh?

Used in vocabulary (1002 in total)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
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Examples (200 in total)
Is it true that the world will end in 2012?
That was two years ago.
Have you known her since 1990?
I've been in that line of work for five years.
This is me ten years ago.
Taro died two years ago.
It's been ten years since he died.
He has been dead for five years.
He went there ten years ago.
Didn't you know that she passed away about two years ago?
She had gone there ten years before.
She died in 1960.
It has been ten years since I came here.
I have known him for more than ten years.
I have been teaching for over 15 years.
I've been teaching here for over thirty years.
I'm sure I saw her two years ago.
I last saw him in 1945.
It's been ten years since I last saw her.
I don't remember seeing you two years ago.
Ten years is a long time to wait.
Two years is a long time to wait.
I saw her somewhere two years ago.
He is quite different from what he was ten years ago.
This book's over a hundred years old.
She left school two years ago.
It's been ten years since I came to this town.
That village has changed a lot from how it was 10 years ago.
It's been five years since my father died.
"Yes, I can do it," answered the boy.
I know that boy whom you don't know.
Where did you see the boy?
Who is that boy?
That boy is running.
That's the boy I saw yesterday.
This is the boy I met there yesterday.
Do you know any of the boys in this room?
This is the boy.
This is the boy who helped me.
All the boys ran away.
The boy told me why he was crying.
The boy talks as if he were a girl.
The boy ran toward his house.
The boy sat among the girls.
The boy could not so much as write his own name.
The boy ran away.
The boy was crying in the room.
The boy remained silent.
Two boys came running out of the room.
The other boys smiled.
Two boys stood in front of me.
The boys are waiting.
The boy ran away without looking back.
The boy ran away when he saw me.
The boy had a red face.
The boy came running into the room.
He is no longer a boy.
He's a good boy so I like him.
He is a boy with many dreams.
He is not the boy who came here yesterday.
He is not the boy that he was ten years ago.
She was a girl, and he was a boy.
She stood among the boys.
I don't know who that boy is.
I know that running boy.
I know the boy.
I am a boy.
You remind me of a boy I used to know.
The boy was calm.
The boy chose to stay with his mother.
The boy became happy.
I hadn't seen my friend for over twenty years.
The long fight ended in 1920.
The boy was quiet.
That boy's hair is black.
That boy has black hair.
Two years went by before I could find a good job.
Five years have gone by since my father died.
Ten years have gone by since my father died.
Ten years have passed since I came here.
Ten years have gone by.
Thirty years passed.
I was born in 2013.
It was in 1950 that he was born.
I was born in 1988.
I was born in 1972.
I was born in 1979.
I was born in 1980.
The boy got in through the window.
He lived here ten years ago.
I'm going to Japan in 2020.
It was ten years ago that he first came to Japan.
It has been two years since he came to Japan.
He has been in Japan for two years.
He is a Japanese boy.
He came to Japan seven years ago.
It's been five years since they came to Japan.
She came to Japan seven years ago.
I came to Japan two years ago.
I will go to Japan in 2020.
I know the boy who is sitting closest to the door.
There is a boy near the door.
When I was a boy, I often read a book in bed.
We were married five years ago today.
It's been ten years since they were married.
They have been married for ten years.
They have been married two years.
She has been married to him for two years.
It is already ten years since we got married.
It's been thirty years since we got married.
I got married 8 years ago.
It's been five years since our wedding.
People laughed at the boy.
That event happened 15 years ago.
All the boys are honest.
The boy is very honest.
I believe that the boy is honest.
I turned thirteen in 2003.
They had not fought for more than forty years.
The boy I love doesn't love me.
I opened the door and saw two boys standing side by side.
The boy soon accommodated himself to his new class.
Those boys are not good at speaking to these girls.
These boys are not good at speaking to girls.
His car is two years old.
I've lived in this town since 1960.
I've lived here for 30 years.
She has already lived in that town for five years.
More than five years have passed since I came to live in this house.
I've been living here for the past ten years.
I have lived here since 1990.
Let's ask the boy who lives next door.
The boy is far from a fool.
The boy came back.
The boy who lives next door often comes home late.
My boyfriend and I have been together for seven years already.
The boy sat on a chair.
I don't know how things were a hundred or fifty years ago.
This photograph reminds me of enjoyable times when I was a child.
They looked at the photo taken of me when I was a boy and laughed.
All the boys in class worked hard.
The boy opened the window, although his mother told him not to.
Every day the boy would come.
A boy ran off with some money.
This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.
Japan is very different from what it was fifty years ago.
Such a boy is loved by everybody.
He is a cheerful boy.
That war ended in 1954.
The war took place 45 years ago.
The war began in 1941.
The war ended in 1945.
The war lasted two years.
War broke out in 1941.
I have been busier than the two boys.
That building is more than three hundred years old.
Here are about ten boys.
It's been ten years since I came to live here.
One of these two boys knows that.
Which boy is Masao?
I don't like either of the boys.
He must be a good boy.
The boy over there is his brother.
The boy standing over there is my son.
Man first visited the moon in 1969.
The boy was so tired that he could walk no longer.
More than twenty boys went there.
They have been married for twenty years.
I was born 20 years ago.
The boy standing by the door is my brother.
The boy exclaimed in delight.
That boy is his brother.
I've been working in the same company for ten years.
The boy was forced to quit school by his parents.
The boy turned around then.
The boy was so tired that he couldn't take one more step.
He's a fine young man.
She made the boy into a fine man.
The boy could not keep up with activities in school.
I have lived in Tokyo since 1985.
It's been five years since I came to Tokyo.
I was born in Tokyo in 1968.
10 years have passed since then.
It has been as many as ten years since I started to live in Tokyo.
We've lived together since 2012.
Every boy and every girl was delighted.
I love him more than any of the other boys.
The boy is eating bread.
All the boys looked down.
I am sure I saw her two years ago.
It is hard to master it in a year or two.
The boy said a wolf would come.
He left his country two years ago.
A boy was throwing stones at the dog.
The boy threw a stone.
The boy was sold into slavery.
I have been acquainted with her for more than 20 years.
I have been the busiest of the three boys.
The three boys opened the doors of the building.
I have been a teacher for 15 years.