Illustration: An elderly violin maker sits comfortably in a sunlit home workshop, adjusting a small instrument while a younger apprentice supports its neck. Their hands are veined and slightly unsteady, but their expression remains absorbed and assured.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

晩ばん年ねん

bannen

one’s later years

Example sentences

ベートーベンは晩年ばんねん耳みみが聞きこえなかった。
Beethoven was deaf in his late years.
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彼女かのじょは悲かなしみを隠かくして晩年ばんねんを送おくった。
She spent her later life with a hidden sorrow.
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彼かれはピカソが晩年ばんねんに描えがいた絵えを手てに入いれた。
He obtained a picture which Picasso had painted in his later years.
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Kanji in 晩年

晩nightfall; nightOnバン
年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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