さんねん – Vocabulary details

さんねん

Noun

1. three years

この仕し事ごとを始はじめてもう３さん年ねんがたった。Three years have already passed since I started this job.

2. third school year (e.g. of high school)

さ

んねん

three; 3

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

third-year student; third-year pupil

perseverance prevails; (lit.) three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm)

it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; (lit.) planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight

魔まのさんねん目めだ。

It's the dreaded third year.

私わたしはさんねん待まち続つづけている。

I've been waiting for three years.

彼かれは日に本ほんにさんねんいます。

He has been in Japan for three years.

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