ネン
Meanings
Noun
1. year
I am no longer the me from two years ago.
Counter
2. counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school)
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)
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (185 in total)
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
Examples (200 in total)
This is the year 1990.
I graduated in 2013.
Taro died two years ago.
I have been teaching for over 15 years.
I hadn't seen my friend for over twenty years.
I was born in 2013.
I turned thirteen in 2003.
10 years have passed since then.
It is hard to master it in a year or two.
I have been a teacher for 15 years.
It happened ten years ago.
I bought a house in 2013.
I studied Japanese for five years.
I've studied English for five years.
I was born in 1933.
The book was published in 2005.
Here is the demand forecast for 1998.
Paris fell in 1940.
I've been teaching here for over thirty years.
I last saw him in 1945.
Ten years is a long time to wait.
This is me ten years ago.
Have you known her since 1990?
That was two years ago.
Is it true that the world will end in 2012?
The long fight ended in 1920.
I'm going to Japan in 2020.
I've lived in this town since 1960.
His car is two years old.
That war ended in 1954.
We've lived together since 2012.
I have lived in Tokyo since 1985.
The activities of the volunteer group covered half a century.
I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.
It's been ten years since my grandfather died.
1980 was the year that I was born.
We get together once a year.
This hotel was built two years ago.
I only wear a kimono about once a year.
He is in good health in spite of his age.
I was born in Kyoto in 1980.
I was born in Osaka in 1977.
Queen Elizabeth I passed away in 1603.
India gained independence from Britain in 1947.
Ten years have gone by since his death.
This college was established in 1910.
Fashions of thirty years ago have come back in style.
I have lived in Kamakura for twelve years.
She has been with a publishing company for two years.
I saw her somewhere two years ago.
It's been ten years since I came to this town.
She left school two years ago.
It has been ten years since I came here.
He went there ten years ago.
I've been in that line of work for five years.
They had not fought for more than forty years.
We were married five years ago today.
It's been ten years since I came to live here.
Man first visited the moon in 1969.
They have been married for twenty years.
I am sure I saw her two years ago.
I have been acquainted with her for more than 20 years.
They have been here since 1989.
We have enjoyed peace for more than forty years.
It's been two years since I saw him last.
The accident happened two years ago.
These shoes will last you two years.
It was about fifty years ago.
My job will only last two years at most.
What happened twelve years ago?
Information from three hundred years ago is still around, right?
She will become a doctor within two years.
Germany of today is not what it was ten years ago.
It is a story from five hundred years ago.
Two years have passed since we parted.
Production of this automobile started in 1980.
I have been acquainted with the mayor for more than twenty years.
This bridge was built two years ago.
It took ten years to build the amusement park.
She visits him twice a year.
We have been dating for about two years now.
He went to Paris two years ago.
It was built about 500 years ago.
I studied abroad in the summer of my second year of high school.
They were born one month apart in 1970.
The telephone was invented by Bell in 1876.
I have been on friendly terms with him for more than twenty years.
The followings are the chief events of 1993.
I was a second-year at university, so I guess I was nineteen.
He took office two years ago.
I became a member of the club ten years ago.
We have been good friends for ten years.
Jack has been living in New York for six years.
John and Mary have known each other since 1976.
The first electronic computer was produced in our country in 1941.
I have been in Kobe since 1980.
In 1853, the first blue jeans came out.
I am no longer the me from two years ago.
I'm sure I saw her two years ago.
I don't remember seeing you two years ago.
He is quite different from what he was ten years ago.
I have known him for more than ten years.
It's been five years since my father died.
Two years went by before I could find a good job.
That event happened 15 years ago.
That building is more than three hundred years old.
I've been working in the same company for ten years.
I read the book in my second year of high school.
He left his country two years ago.
My mom married my dad in the 80s.
It took him five years to write this novel.
This is the hottest summer that we have had in thirty years.
Ten years ago, a bridge went across this river.
We have lived in the U.S. for ten years now.
I entered this school two years ago.
There was a deep pond there ten years ago.
The earth came into existence about five thousand million years ago.
After all, it was seven years ago.
He has had that job for decades.
He said that America declared its independence in 1776.
The house was built several hundred years ago.
They will have been in America for ten years next year.
I have known Taro for ten years.
It happened three years later, that is in 1965.
I have lived here a little over 60 years.
The church was built hundreds of years ago.
She was fatter ten years ago than she is now.
Women usually live 10 years longer than men do.
In 1994, there was a shortage of water and rice in Japan.
It's been five years since we moved here.
The town will change in another ten years.
Father established his business 40 years ago.
I go to my father's place twice a year.
Five years have been spent building the new building.
The last date was from two years ago.
They have been monopolizing the championship for nearly fifteen years now.
She is said to have been an actress about twenty years ago.
That poet lived here a little over 20 years.
Ten years is a short time when we look back at it.
Japanese high school students go to school 35 weeks a year.
My brother is not as tall as I was two years ago.
The man controlled the country for fifty years.
The document records that the war broke out in 1700.
My uncle died of cancer two years ago.
It was in 1980 that John was shot at this spot.
The population has doubled in the last five years.
This dictionary took thirty years to compile.
"How long have you been living here?" "It'll be five years next week."
His memory has been decaying because of age.
My father has lived in Nagoya for more than fifteen years.
This book's over a hundred years old.
He is not the boy that he was ten years ago.
That village has changed a lot from how it was 10 years ago.
I don't know how things were a hundred or fifty years ago.
This town is quite different from what it was ten years ago.
Didn't you know that he passed away about two years ago?
This system worked well until the 1840s.
There are two and a half years left of high school life.
Fifteen years have passed since we went there last.
There is no record of it having been grown for the past two hundred years or so.
I had known her for ten years when I married her.
In 1900, he left England, and he never returned.
We will have been married for ten years on this day next week.
It took two years after moving here to finally get used to it.
I've been a fan of this band for five years.
The old man retired from public life ten years ago.
It is over ten years since she last went back to her country.
Looking at the year of publication, it was about two years ago.
Generally, women live 10 years longer than men.
"My husband passed on two years ago," an elderly lady said.
The diamond was discovered by a boy in 1873.
The grade level is sixth, and it is said that all the club members are sixth-year students.
Our ancestors came to this country 150 years ago.
Yesterday was, without a doubt, the worst day of my thirty years of life.
He came to Tokyo five years ago, that is to say, when he was twelve years old.
Nowadays, they say they only take on up to two apprentices a year.
My sister will have been studying English for ten years when she graduates from her college.
Backed by overwhelming power, they had been doing whatever they pleased for decades.
He returned home from Europe in 1941, when the war broke out.
That was in the spring of the 38th year of the Showa era.
Even if it takes me ten years, I am determined to accomplish the job.
The average nurse is entitled to three weeks' holiday a year.
As of 1991, the population of this city is around one million.
After such a relationship lasted for about two years, we broke up.
Last summer, I finally left the firm that I had joined twelve years before.
It will soon be forty years since the day we first met, won't it?
Before I knew it, I've entered my eighth year as a writer.
When they had their first baby, they had been married for 10 years.
Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.
In the last fifteen or twenty years, there have been great changes in family life in Britain.
It will take him at least two years to be qualified for that post.
I instructed them to trace the records back to more than ten years ago.
To know the result, it would take hundreds, indeed thousands, of years.
Compared to fifty years ago, today's aviation technology has made great progress.
The modus operandi was very similar to the incident from six years ago.
He ruled for five years. In the sixth year, another king, who was stronger than he, waged war against him.
It is an era more than fifteen hundred years in the future, counting from the twenty-third century.
When I visited my hometown this summer, I found the city different from what it had been ten years ago.
This house is ten years old, but that house over there is quite new.
That was when I was in the first year at high school, so 17 years have passed since then.