Illustration: In a Japanese living room at the end of December, a parent removes a full-year wall calendar containing twelve small monthly grids arranged in three rows of four. Its date cells are crowded with removable tracking discs.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

来らい年ねん

rainen

next year

Example sentences

  1. 健けんは来年らいねんで１５歳さいになります。

    Ken will be fifteen next year.

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  2. 来年らいねん外国がいこくへ行いきます。

    I will go abroad next year.

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  3. 彼女かのじょは来年らいねん結婚けっこんする。

    She’ll be getting married next year.

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Kanji in 来年

  • 来come; dueOnライ・タイKunくる・きたる・きたす
  • 年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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