さんねん – Vocabulary details

さんねん

Noun

1. three years

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

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

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.

彼かれが亡なくなってさんねんになります。

It is three years since he died.

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