ヒャクネン – Vocabulary details

ヒャクネン

Meanings

Noun

1. century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time

どんな魔ま法ほうも、百ひゃく年ねん経たてば消しょう滅めつすると言いわれています。It is said that any magic disappears after a hundred years.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

ヒャ

ク

ネン

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Composed of

ヒャク

hundred; 100

ネン

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 (10 in total)

ヒャクネンマエ

one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously

ヒャクネンメ

the hundredth year; out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope; rare chance; unusually good fortune

ヒャクネンセンソウ

Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

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Examples (8 in total)

ひゃくねんヒャクネンは一いっ世せい紀きと呼よばれる。

A hundred years is called a century.

ひゃくねんヒャクネン後ごにまた会あえばいいさ。

We can just meet again in a hundred years.

まるでひゃくねんヒャクネンぶりに会あった気き分ぶんだよ。

It feels like we haven't seen each other in a hundred years.

どんな魔ま法ほうも、ひゃくねんヒャクネン経たてば消しょう滅めつすると言いわれています。

It is said that any magic disappears after a hundred years.

人ひとの一いっ生しょうは、せいぜい長ながくてもひゃくねんヒャクネンには届とどかない。

A person's life, at the most, does not reach a hundred years.

何なにしろもうひゃくねんヒャクネン近ちかく前まえのことだからね。

After all, it was almost a hundred years ago.

多た分ぶん、相そう当とう贅ぜい沢たくに使つかってもひゃくねんヒャクネンは持もつと思おもいます。

I think it will last a hundred years, even if used quite lavishly.

たかがひゃくねんヒャクネン、二に百ひゃく年ねんで、人ひとがどれほど変かわったことか。