いちねん
Meanings
Noun
1. one year; some time ago
It's been a year.
Pitch accent
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ねん
Composed of
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
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 (12 in total)
first-year student; first-year pupil; beginner; novice; annual; annual plant
one year ago
all year round
Examples (42 in total)
It happened more than a year ago.
He has been in Tokyo for a year.
They split up after a year of marriage.
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
These shoes have lasted one year.
A year has passed since he died.
It's the best season of the year.
Cattle generally grow large in about a year, you see.
There are four seasons in a year.
April is the fourth month of the year.
I didn't pass while still in high school, so I spent a year studying to retake the exams.
December is the last month of the year.
The term is set at one year.
December is the busiest month of the year.
The older you get, the shorter a year feels.
Can you pay off your loans in a year?
It is just a year since I got married.
I can't believe it's been more than a year.
The earth goes around the sun once a year.
One year had passed since the education of character began.
I have been writing this manuscript for a year.
A year is three hundred and sixty-five days, right?
A year has already passed since I came to Japan.
If a year passes, the tomb will be covered with flowers.
February has the fewest days of any month.
January is the coldest month of the year.
He spent a year and completed a full-length novel.
In Hawaii you can swim in the sea all year.
This mountain is covered with snow all year round.
We all try to get together at least once a year.
I want to make this year as fun as last year, or even more so.
This project will take at least a year to finish.
I have a second son, who is now in his first year of high school.
Jane will never forget this past year. Neither will we.
Tom intends to live in Boston for more than a year.
I witnessed that scene several times over the past year.
Well, we're a year apart, but we're pretty much like contemporaries.
What do you think were the year's ten biggest items of news?
No matter how hard you may study English, you cannot master it in a year or so.
What time of year do you usually like to spend time on the beach?
Tom has a party two or three times a year.
There was a phone call from a 50-year old man who had been told he had a year left to live due to heart disease.