ねんかん – Vocabulary details

ねんかん

Adverb

Noun

1. (period of) a year

それはこの三さん年ねん間かんずっと変かわらない。That has not changed at all for these three years.

Suffix

2. during the era (of)

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

interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance

(period of) one year

several years

thousand-year period

１５ねんかん、先せん生せいをしてました。

I was a teacher for fifteen years.

三さんねんかんやってみよう。

Let's try it for three years.

５ねんかんアメリカに住すんでいたからだよ。

It's because he lived in the United States for five years.

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