3さん年ねん
Meanings
Noun
1. three years
Three years have already passed since I started this job.
2. third school year (e.g. of high school)
Kanji used
year
Pitch accent
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んねん
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Composed of
three; 3
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 (1 in total)
third-year student; third-year pupil
Examples (73 in total)
I lived there for three years.
I want to stay in America for a few years.
Three years have passed since then.