ねん
Meanings
Noun
1. four years
Kanji used
four
year
Pitch accent
ねん
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Composed of
four
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
fourth-year student
ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)
Examples (3 in total)
The president's term of office is four years.
My father died four years ago.
He was let out after serving just two years of his four-year prison sentence.