経たつ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, つ, intransitive)
1. to pass (of time); to elapse
Not that much time has passed yet, but it already feels nostalgic.
Kanji used
Buddhist scripture
Pitch accent
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つ
Top 1500
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
time passes; the days and months go by; the months roll on
Examples (41 in total)
It hasn't even been half a day.
Time passes quickly.
10 years have passed since then.
Half a year has already passed.
Three weeks went by.
He came back after many years.
I can't believe three years has already gone by.
About half a month has passed since then.
I can't believe it's been more than a year.
It's been two years since I saw him last.
I can't believe that it's been more than a year.
How long have you lived in Japan?
Time goes by quickly when you're having fun.
If a year passes, the tomb will be covered with flowers.
The leaves turned red as the days passed.
It's been exactly one week since Tom left.
It's been three years since I started studying French.
In the course of time, he changed his mind.
One and a half years have passed since I started to learn Chinese.
It has been as many as ten years since I started to live in Tokyo.
Time passed, and summer vacation was steadily approaching its end.
Even though it hasn't even been an hour since we met, I don't feel like I can win.
That surely will not change even after decades have passed.
The town will change in another ten years.
It is said that any magic disappears after a hundred years.
It has been over three years since I moved here.
Not much time has passed since you agreed to appear.
It's been two years since I started learning Chinese.
You've only been on the job for about 15 minutes.
Not that much time has passed yet, but it already feels nostalgic.
I had known her for ten years when I married her.
While we were doing that, another two hours passed.
It's been a week, but I'm still suffering from jet lag.
After a good few minutes had passed, she opened her eyes and spoke.
There's a red streak, but it'll heal in three or four days.
The possibility of survival approaches zero the more time passes.
Even if the body dies, as long as the soul is unharmed, it will come back to life in time.
After a while, the middle-aged owner came out looking surprised.
As time went on, people grew more and more concerned about the matter.
Even though two thousand years have passed, it is amazing how many descendants there are.
That was when I was in the first year at high school, so 17 years have passed since then.