ネン – Vocabulary details

ネン

Noun

1. year

僕ぼくはもう、二に年ねん前まえの僕ぼくじゃない。I am no longer the me from two years ago.

Counter

2. counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school)

高こう校こう二に年ねんの夏なつに留りゅう学がくした。I studied abroad in the summer of my second year of high school.

Noun

Abbreviation

3. period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

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annual; yearly; year (e.g. of graduation, joining a company); nth year (student, employee, etc.)

every year; year after year

year by year; annually; every year; from year to year

今こ年としは１９９０ねんネンです。

This is the year 1990.

2013ねんネンに卒そつ業ぎょうしました。

I graduated in 2013.

太郎は２ねんネン前まえに死しんだ。

Taro died two years ago.

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