ネン
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
Used in vocabulary (179 in total)
annual; yearly; year (e.g. of graduation); nth year (e.g. student); order by year
every year; year after year
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
Examples (200 in total)
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.
He comes to Tokyo once a year.
He took office two years ago.
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.
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 is hard to master it in a year or two.
I have been a teacher for 15 years.
It happened ten years ago.
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.
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.
She will become a doctor in two years.
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.
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.
It's been ten years since I came to this town.
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.
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.
The first electronic computer was produced in our country in 1941.
We have been good friends for ten years.
I have been in Kobe since 1980.
It's been two years since he went Hawaii.
Tom and Sue have known each other since 1985.
The church dates back to 1173.
The house gets painted every five years.
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.
She was fatter ten years ago than she is now.
The town will change in another ten years.
In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.
I became a member of the club in 1980.
Women usually live 10 years longer than men do.
It's been five years since we moved here.
Father established his business 40 years ago.
I have known Taro for ten years.
That poet lived here a little over 20 years.
She is said to have been an actress about twenty years ago.
Five years have been spent building the new building.
Ten years is a short time when we look back at it.
Japanese high school students go to school 35 weeks a year.
It was in 1980 that John was shot at this spot.
The man controlled the country for fifty years.
The earthquake which caused the disaster occurred in 1995.
The document records that the war broke out in 1700.
"How long have you been living here?" "It'll be five years next week."
His father had died of cancer 10 years ago.
He was raised to the rank of colonel two years ago.
I have known Miss Smith for nine years.
Japan has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1912.
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?
This system worked well until the 1840s.
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.
The old man retired from public life ten years ago.
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.
This temple is said to have been built over 500 years ago.
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.
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.
As of 1991, the population of this city is around one million.
The average nurse is entitled to three weeks' holiday a year.
It happened that in August, 1984 my work obliged me to go to Okinawa.
In 1995, Andou received architecture's most prestigious award.
I had lived in Sendai for ten years before I visited Matsushima.
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.
It will take him at least two years to be qualified for that post.
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.
This house is ten years old, but that house over there is quite new.
He went to Italy ten years ago and has lived there ever since.
She left home five years ago, and has never been heard of since.