ねん – Vocabulary details

ねん

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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ten thousand years; eternity; perennial; perpetual

how many years; how long; what year

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

今こ年としは１９９０ねんです。

This is the year 1990.

2013ねんに卒そつ業ぎょうしました。

I graduated in 2013.

太郎は２ねん前まえに死しんだ。

Taro died two years ago.

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