しじゅう – Vocabulary details

しじゅう

Numeric

1. forty; 40

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four

ten; 10; (arch.) book containing a collection of poems

forty-ninth day after a person's death

shoulder pain (at about age forty)

at age forty, one has no doubts

私わたしたちはしじゅう年ねん以い上じょう平へい和わを享きょう受じゅしています。

We have been enjoying peace for more than 40 years.

彼かの女じょはしじゅう歳さいを超こえていると思おもう。

I think she is over forty years old.

しじゅう歳さいになって彼かれは昔むかしほど怒おこらない。

At forty, he does not get as angry as he used to.

しじゅう歳さいになって初はじめて彼かれはドイツ語ごを学まなび始はじめた。

It was not until he was forty that he began to study German.

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