ねん
Meanings
Noun
1. year
Counter
2. counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school)
Noun
Abbreviation
3. period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
Pitch accent
Top 27200
Used in vocabulary (180 in total)
ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual
how many years; how long; what year
Examples (200 in total)
We get together once a year.
I only wear a kimono about once a year.
He is in good health in spite of his age.
We were married five years ago today.
I've been using this smartphone for five years.
These shoes will last you two years.
He comes to Tokyo once a year.
He took office two years ago.
This man has been blind for five years at least.
It's been five years since my father died.
He has had that job for decades.
The house was built several hundred years ago.
I have lived here a little over 60 years.
The church was built hundreds of years ago.
My brother is not as tall as I was two years ago.
The population has doubled in the last five years.
My father has lived in Nagoya for more than fifteen years.
His memory has been decaying because of age.
It is two years since I came here.
Two years have passed since Jim graduated from high school.
The breakfast menu hasn't changed for decades.
He went to London two years ago.
Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.
This is the year 1990.
I graduated in 2013.
Forty years passed.
Taro died two years ago.
I have been teaching for over 15 years.
I hadn't seen my friend for over twenty years.
I was born in 2013.
I turned thirteen in 2003.
10 years have passed since then.
It happened ten years ago.
I have been a teacher for 15 years.
I bought a house in 2013.
I studied Japanese for five years.
I've studied English for five years.
I was born in 1933.
The book was published in 2005.
Here is the demand forecast for 1998.
Paris fell in 1940.
My wife passed away in 2013.
This is me ten years ago.
Have you known her since 1990?
That was two years ago.
Is it true that the world will end in 2012?
I last saw him in 1945.
Ten years is a long time to wait.
The long fight ended in 1920.
I'm going to Japan in 2020.
His car is two years old.
I've lived in this town since 1960.
That war ended in 1954.
I have lived in Tokyo since 1985.
We've lived together since 2012.
The activities of the volunteer group covered half a century.
I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.
It's been ten years since my grandfather died.
1980 was the year that I was born.
This hotel was built two years ago.
I was born in Kyoto in 1980.
2001 is the year when the 21st century begins.
I was born in Osaka in 1977.
He went to London in 1970.
Queen Elizabeth I passed away in 1603.
India gained independence from Britain in 1947.
I have lived in Kamakura for twelve years.
This college was established in 1910.
Fashions of thirty years ago have come back in style.
She has been with a publishing company for two years.
The date on the coin is 1921.
The dam was completed in 2013.
That law was abolished in 2013.
The United Nations Building was built in 1952.
I saw her somewhere two years ago.
It has been ten years since I came here.
He went there ten years ago.
I've been in that line of work for five years.
She left school two years ago.
He lived here ten years ago.
They had not fought for more than forty years.
My boyfriend and I have been together for seven years already.
It's been ten years since I came to live here.
Man first visited the moon in 1969.
They have been married for twenty years.
I am sure I saw her two years ago.
I have been acquainted with her for more than 20 years.
They have been here since 1989.
We have enjoyed peace for more than forty years.
It's been two years since I saw him last.
The accident happened two years ago.
My job will only last two years at most.
Germany of today is not what it was ten years ago.
She will become a doctor within two years.
Two years have passed since we parted.
Production of this automobile started in 1980.
I have been acquainted with the mayor for more than twenty years.
Taro has lived in Obihiro for ten years.
This bridge was built two years ago.
It took ten years to build the amusement park.
They were born one month apart in 1970.
The great politician passed away in 1963.
He went to Paris two years ago.
It was built about 500 years ago.
The telephone was invented by Bell in 1876.
I have been on friendly terms with him for more than twenty years.
The followings are the chief events of 1993.
Jack has been living in New York for six years.
I became a member of the club ten years ago.
John and Mary have known each other since 1976.
We have been good friends for ten years.
The first electronic computer was produced in our country in 1941.
I have been in Kobe since 1980.
It's been two years since he went Hawaii.
It took him five years to write this novel.
In 1853, the first blue jeans came out.
Tom and Sue have known each other since 1985.
The church dates back to 1173.
He is quite different from what he was ten years ago.
I have known him for more than ten years.
I'm sure I saw her two years ago.
I don't remember seeing you two years ago.
Two years went by before I could find a good job.
That event happened 15 years ago.
That building is more than three hundred years old.
I've been working in the same company for ten years.
He left his country two years ago.
I read the book in my second year of high school.
My mom married my dad in the 80s.
Ten years ago, a bridge went across this river.
This is the hottest summer that we have had in thirty years.
We have lived in the U.S. for ten years now.
There was a deep pond there ten years ago.
I entered this school two years ago.
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
That was when I was in the first year at high school, so 17 years have passed since then.
He said that America declared its independence in 1776.
They will have been in America for ten years next year.
The town will change in another ten years.
In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.
Women usually live 10 years longer than men do.
I became a member of the club in 1980.
It's been five years since we moved here.
Father established his business 40 years ago.
That poet lived here a little over 20 years.
Five years have been spent building the new building.
She is said to have been an actress about twenty years ago.
Ten years is a short time when we look back at it.
Japanese high school students go to school 35 weeks a year.
The man controlled the country for fifty years.
It was in 1980 that John was shot at this spot.
The earthquake which caused the disaster occurred in 1995.
His father had died of cancer 10 years ago.
"How long have you been living here?" "It'll be five years next week."
I have known Miss Smith for nine years.
He was raised to the rank of colonel two years ago.
Japan has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1912.
He has been engaged in this study nearly ten years.
Do you remember what happened here in October of 2013?
He went to Africa in 1960 never to return.
I was born in Osaka on March 5, 1977.
Japan is now very different from what it was twenty years ago.
Ten years have passed since I came to Tokyo at the age of eighteen.
This book's over a hundred years old.
That village has changed a lot from how it was 10 years ago.
He is not the boy that he was ten years ago.
I don't know how things were a hundred or fifty years ago.
This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.
Didn't you know that he passed away about two years ago?
Fifteen years have passed since we went there last.
My father died three years ago, that is to say in 1977.
In 1900, he left England, and he never returned.
I had known her for ten years when I married her.
We will have been married for ten years on this day next week.
It is over ten years since she last went back to her country.
Generally, women live 10 years longer than men.
"My husband passed on two years ago," an elderly lady said.
The diamond was discovered by a boy in 1873.
We'll have lived here for two years next April.
Our ancestors came to this country 150 years ago.
It has been the driest June for thirty years.
Our American neighbor will have lived in Japan for five years next year.
Yesterday was, without a doubt, the worst day of my thirty years of life.
He came to Tokyo five years ago, that is to say, when he was twelve years old.
My sister will have been studying English for ten years when she graduates from her college.
He returned home from Europe in 1941, when the war broke out.
Even if it takes me ten years, I am determined to accomplish the job.
The average nurse is entitled to three weeks' holiday a year.
As of 1991, the population of this city is around one million.
It happened that in August, 1984 my work obliged me to go to Okinawa.
I had lived in Sendai for ten years before I visited Matsushima.
Japan's exports to the entire world topped $314 billion in 1998.
Last summer, I finally left the firm that I had joined twelve years before.
When they had their first baby, they had been married for 10 years.
In the last fifteen or twenty years, there have been great changes in family life in Britain.
Compared to fifty years ago, today's aviation technology has made great progress.
Her brother nearly died in a traffic accident nine years ago.
He ruled for five years. In the sixth year, another king, who was stronger than he, waged war against him.
When I visited my hometown this summer, I found the city different from what it had been ten years ago.
He went to Italy ten years ago and has lived there ever since.