ふん
Meanings
Noun
1. minute (unit of time)
If you walk slowly, it'll probably take about fifteen minutes to get to the gate.
2. fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
Pitch accent
ふ
ん
Used in vocabulary (14 in total)
two minutes
five minutes
discretion; prudence; good sense; judgement; judgment; wisdom
Examples (119 in total)
It's a fifteen-minute walk.
Only fifteen minutes.
It's 7.50.
It's 9:15.
He will be back in thirty minutes.
She thought for a few minutes.
It only takes thirty minutes by car.
We have a thirty-minute lunch break.
I'll be back at 2:30.
They're 30 minutes behind schedule.
I spoke with Tom for thirty minutes.
How about 12:45?
Could you spare me a few minutes?
I'll be back in twenty minutes or so.
It's very near. It's a five minute walk.
The school is only five minutes' walk from here.
Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning.
I plan to finish it in two or three minutes.
It's thirty-minute drive from here to there.
Let's wait for another 5 minutes.
I have a few minutes to spare.
Can you help me for half an hour?
The meeting finished thirty minutes ago.
You should have left half an hour earlier.
She spoke for 30 minutes without a break.
I have half an hour lunch break.
It is a five-minute walk to the library.
At the most, you'll only be 30 minutes late.
I waited for fifteen minutes.
The train runs every thirty minutes.
She came back in about thirty minutes.
My apartment is five minutes from the station.
She got to the other side in 30 minutes.
I was made to wait for over 30 minutes.
The plane came in 30 minutes late.
He went out a few minutes ago.
Let's break off for half an hour and have some coffee.
The airport is forty minutes away from the centre.
It took us half an hour to set up the tent.
"What time is it?" "It's 3:20."
Sorry, I'm 30 minutes late because I overslept.
The bus stop is a five-minute walk from here.
There is a bus every fifteen minutes.
I missed the bus by three minutes.
The alarm went off at five-thirty.
I've been waiting for almost half an hour.
Check again in about three minutes.
Please wait for thirty minutes.
Sorry, I'm probably going to be about 20 minutes late.
This clock loses three minutes a day.
I'll call back in twenty minutes.
If I have to wait 30 minutes, I'll order later.
Please limit your presentation to 30 minutes.
The lake can be reached in half an hour by bus.
I study English half an hour every day.
"How soon will the bus be here?" "It'll be here in five minutes."
You can get there in less than thirty minutes.
My watch loses three minutes a week.
It's only twenty minutes to the station by taxi.
There's a 60-minute plan and a 90-minute plan.
It's about 30 minutes from here on foot.
The plane will arrive at the airport thirty minutes late.
The class begins at 8:30.
The water will come to a boil in 5 minutes or so.
John will be here in five minutes.
The video is about fifteen minutes long in total.
First, please take about 3 minutes to introduce yourself.
I'd like to take a 9:30 flight.
Chestnuts have to be boiled for at least fifteen minutes.
The express arrives at 6:30 p.m.
"What time is it now?" "It's 3:30."
I usually get to work at about 8.30.
Those trains run every three minutes.
Each speaker was allotted five minutes.
I think I'll be back in about 30 minutes.
He made me wait for about half an hour.
It took me five minutes to solve the problem.
They got to the station only a few minutes apart.
I think we had better wait another thirty minutes.
It's only four minutes from here by train.
We lost sight of them over half an hour ago.
My watch loses three minutes a day.
He is capable of running a mile in four minutes.
The villa is only a five minutes walk from the beach.
I make it a rule to take a walk for half an hour every morning.
The next ten-odd minutes will decide whether I live or die.
It takes twenty-five minutes to get to school by bike.
Let the tea steep for at least 5 minutes.
She wakes him up every day at 6:30.
To him those five minutes seemed like five hours.
The train departs at 7:15 a.m.
It's a fifteen minute walk from here to the campus.
We were to have taken off at 4:30 p.m.
I have an appointment with the professor at 1:30.
It takes us five minutes to walk through the tunnel.
Bobby must go to bed by 7:30.
Let's meet in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel at 6:30 p.m.
You've only been on the job for about 15 minutes.
I woke up 5 minutes ago. I need coffee before I can start working.
It took about five minutes to get to my uncle's house from the station.
The estimated time of landfall is 17:15.
Take this capsule within thirty minutes of each meal.
He said that the last bus leaves at 10:50 p.m.
I need to catch the 8.15 train to Paris.
The new subway enables me to get to school in 20 minutes.
The birds started singing today at exactly 4:09.
"Do you know when they will arrive?" "At eleven-thirty this evening."
It began to rain five minutes after I left home.
The fireworks show was suspended after 30 minutes due to the thunderstorm.
The fire brigade was on the scene within five minutes of receiving the call.
My father is to arrive in Honolulu at 4:30 p.m.
We got stuck in a traffic jam, which made us twenty minutes late.
Hurry up! There's only 30 minutes left before the train leaves.
The train arrived 30 minutes late due to a rise in the temperature of the rails.
The plane took off at 11:00 a.m; thirty minutes later than scheduled.
As a rule, he arrives at the office at about nine-thirty in the morning.
He solved the problem in five minutes that I had struggled with for two hours.
If he had come five minutes later, he would have missed the train.
In less than half an hour, the daylight faded and it grew dark outside the window.