かん
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. interval; period of time
The next three days are the decisive period.
Adverb
Noun
Suffix
2. among; between; inter-
For some time, there had been an uneasy atmosphere between the two groups.
Noun
3. good opportunity; chance
4. estrangement; discord; alienation
5. spy; secret agent
Pitch accent
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Top 20800
Used in vocabulary (159 in total)
time; hour; period; class
night; nighttime
the world
Examples (143 in total)
Two hours passed.
Close your eyes for three minutes.
I was kept waiting for as long as two hours.
I have been constipated for three days.
It has been a terribly sad six months.
I lived here for three years.
Taro stayed in Tokyo for three days.
How many days were you in the hospital?
How many days is your holiday?
He went on walking for two hours.
I was three hours late.
I slept nine hours.
He will be here for four days.
The lecture lasted two hours.
We stayed roommates for four years.
The unrest lasted three days.
It rained for three days on end.
He has been unconscious for three days.
I've been working there for three months.
Is the next four months the decisive period?
It has been raining for three days on end.
"How long will the meeting last?" "For two hours."
You have to go to college for four years.
The train was three hours late.
He put in ten hours of overtime this week.
We have six classes a day.
The concert lasted about three hours.
She extended her stay by five days.
He has lived in Kobe for three years.
She has been watching television for three hours.
The judge called for a recess of two hours.
Mr Smith has lived in Kyoto for three years.
This ticket is good for three days.
Even though I slept for twelve hours, I'm still sleepy.
His speech lasted three hours.
It has kept raining for the past three days.
I spent three months in Australia.
The play ran for six months.
The newspaper reported friction between the two parties.
Tom lived downtown for three years.
Reconciliation among religions is the foundation of world peace.
Prices have been stable for the past three years.
Her husband has been in prison for three years.
The guards change every three hours.
There is an air service between Tokyo and Moscow.
I walked for two hours in the afternoon heat.
The bargain sale will run for three days, beginning today.
I have lived in Sasayama for three years.
The festival lasts for three more days, excluding today.
His works will endure for centuries.
I will finish the work in five days.
We knocked at the door for five minutes, but in vain.
He wrote three books in as many years.
You know, something like a conflict between classes.
She looked after my dog for a month.
I recently broke up with my boyfriend of three years.
He has been working on a new book for two months.
The prince was confined in the castle for three years.
I stayed at my aunt's house for three days.
Scientists can easily compute the distance between planets.
The hospital was barred from doing business for three years.
The boy has been sleeping for ten hours.
I spent two hours playing the piano.
However, the distance between the capitals of the two countries is quite large.
Mary always studies for two hours a day.
The office was closed for 10 days for the New Year's holiday.
It takes two hours to go to school by bus and train.
I intend to stay in Nagoya for three days.
They have four classes in the morning.
It took me two hours to memorize this sentence.
Tom and Mary talked for about three hours.
She depended on her uncle for her school expenses for three years.
This machine can print sixty pages a minute.
We flew over the Pacific Ocean for a few hours.
I studied English for two hours after dinner.
My mother was in bed with a cold for three days.
This train runs between Tokyo and Hakata.
Take this medicine every four hours.
It took six hours to climb to the top.
After lunch we have two more classes.
The boy has been absent from school for eight days.
This train runs between New York and Boston.
It is a six-hour drive from Sofia to Varna.
We must maintain the amicable relations between Japan and the U.S.
Tom felt homesick during his stay in Boston.
The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.
Carol has been studying Spanish for three years.
He has been reading a book for four hours on end.
I studied English for four years with a native speaker.
The train was delayed for two hours because of the heavy snow.
Direct flights between New York and Tokyo commenced recently.
He was forced to work more than five hours on end.
I went on a ten-day trip to Easter Island.
The prisoner was behind bars for two months.
She took a ten-day trip to Europe with her friends.
I heard that the distance between Tokyo and Osaka is about 10 km.
If there was no air, man could not live for even ten minutes.
They chatted over coffee for more than two hours.
This machine makes 100 copies a minute.
If everyone is rescued, the rest is a matter between the parties involved.
We must sleep at least seven hours a day.
It took the doctor eight hours to do the operation.
This medicine should be taken every three hours.
I work for three hours every Saturday morning.
We have five classes every day except Saturday.
It took me more than three hours to translate this into French.
He is a diligent student. He studies three hours every day.
Can you hike for days in the wilderness without seeing anyone?
My usual sleeping time is from seven to nine hours.
The root of the problem is a lack of communication between departments.
Three hours is too short for us to discuss that matter.
Tom has to take medicine every three hours.
Due to bad weather, the plane arrived three hours late.
We arrived at an agreement after two hours' discussion.
If you use it more than three hours a month, there are extra charges.
He has been on a diet for two months.
A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.
For some time, there had been an uneasy atmosphere between the two groups.
Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.
The doctor advised that my mother stay in bed for three more days.
I had been working for two hours when I suddenly felt sick.
This is a picture of the first train that ran between Tokyo and Yokohama.
The lack of harmony between colors makes this painting stand out.
That baby will have slept five hours by noon.
It took me more than three hours to translate that report into French.
I haven't heard from Tanaka for the last six months.
Tom waited patiently for three hours, and then gave up.
She waited for a taxi for two hours but couldn't get one.
Communications have been cut off for two hours because of a thunderstorm.
It took the fireman almost two hours to put out the fire.
In these ten days, we managed to sell more than a thousand meals.
It's a two-hour drive from here to my uncle's house.
When Tom broke his leg, he had to use crutches for three months.
He solved the problem in five minutes that I had struggled with for two hours.
The most visible forms of aggression are often seen between prey and predator.
I had been in Tokyo only three days when I received news of my father's death.
After I graduated from college, I moved back home and lived with my parents for three years.
Let's take a 10-minute break.
I didn't eat anything for six days.
I'll stay in Athens for nine days.
I spent two hours watching television last night.
Lori suggested that we should take a ten-minute coffee break.
They walked for ten miles, rested for ten minutes, then walked again.