さんにん
Meanings
Noun
1. three people
Kanji used
person
Pitch accent
んに
Top 2200
Composed of
three; 3
counter for people
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
three people on the same vehicle (usu. bike)
Examples (83 in total)
Three people are missing.
I have three sons.
Three workers died.
Divide the pizza among you three.
Three people are still missing.
I have three cousins.
All three hated one another.
I have three brothers.
He has three daughters.
This meal is adequate for three.
He is the father of three children.
I have three younger brothers.
There are three men trapped in the cave.
I have three grown sons.
Divide these apples between you three.
No less than 3 men fell in that race.
Three men broke out of prison yesterday.
Three people are missing after the flood.
The three neighbors helped each other.
Tom is the youngest of three brothers.
He has three dependents to support.
Divide it among the three.
I know none of the three men.
There are only three girls in the class.
There were three people waiting in front me.
This sofa can seat three people easily.
We three sisters opened a coffee shop.
The back seat of the car will hold three passengers.
The fortune was divided among the three brothers.
Mr Suzuki has three daughters.
The money was divided among the three.
A mother and her two children were stabbed to death in a slasher incident.
He had three sons who became doctors.
Who runs the fastest of the three?
At least three customers come into our shop every day.
She's the most beautiful of the three sisters.
He had three sons who became lawyers.
Each of the three girls got a prize.
Three big men attacked him and stole his money.
Mike is the tallest of the three.
Three drunk men were singing in the park.
I have three friends who can speak French.
I climbed Mt. Fuji last summer with three of my friends.
Of the three boys, the youngest is the most attractive.
He is by far the wisest of the three.
Tom raised three children all by himself.
This verb is normally used only in the third person.
All three of Tom's ex-wives live in Boston.
The three boys opened the doors of the building.
I have been the busiest of the three boys.
He has three sons, who work in the same office.
One out of three people in this city owns a car.
Three boys climbed the trees like a bunch of monkeys.
These three pretty girls are all nieces of mine.
They have four children: three girls and a boy.
Mr. Smith had three sons who became engineers.
Three workers on board the truck were killed in the accident.
He has three sons, who became musicians.
She seems the least shy of the three.
Mr Johnson ran fastest of the three.
Our school accepted three Americans as exchange students.
Our school accepted three Canadians as exchange students.
Paul has three sons. They look very much alike.
Tom and his three sons go camping every weekend in the summer.
Emi danced the most beautifully of the three girls.
No one ever knew the true story except the three of us.
Three boys came in. I spoke to the boy who seemed to be the oldest.
I have three brothers. One lives in Japan and the other two live abroad.
She has three sisters: one is a nurse and the others are teachers.
A few students were left behind.
Those three are his daughters.
He has three older sisters.
Taro is the most famous of the three.
Only a few members turned up at the meeting.
Three out of ten persons have a video.
Only a few people showed up on time for the meeting.
The committee is composed of three men and seven women.
Only 3 out of the 98 passengers survived.
The three people gave three different accounts of the accident.
He has three sisters; one is in Tokyo and the others are in Nagoya.
Three other people were singled out for special praise.
He soon got accustomed to dormitory life and made two or three friends.
I like Ted best of the three boys.