Illustration: In a sunny apartment, a woman compares a newly repotted citrus sapling with three completed annual wall calendars arranged across the floor. Each calendar displays twelve miniature monthly grids, every month marked complete, and one attached photograph of the same plant in the same pot.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

三さん年ねん

sannen

three years

Example sentences

  1. 三年さんねん前まえこの国くにへ来きました。

    I came to this country three years ago.

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  2. その時ときより３年ねんたった。

    Three years have passed since then.

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  3. ３年ねん後ごはどうなってる？

    What will things be like in three years?

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Kanji in 三年

  • 三threeOnサン・ゾウKunみ・みつ・みっつ
  • 年year; counter for yearsOnネンKunとし

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