Illustration: A family stands before a large annual calendar containing twelve unlabelled monthly grids in three rows of four. One day in a middle grid bears a small movable clip, and completed family outings are represented by tiny photographs attached across earlier months.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

今年ことし

kotoshi

this year

Example sentences

  1. 今年ことしは雪ゆきが多おおかった。

    We have had plenty of snow this year.

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  2. 今年ことしは春はるが遅おそい。

    Spring is late this year.

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  3. 今年ことしは雨あめが多おおかった。

    We have had plenty of rain this year.

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Kanji in 今年

  • 今nowOnコン・キンKunいま
  • 年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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