ねんだい
Meanings
Noun
1. age; era; period; date
Pitch accent
んだい
Composed of
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
Used in vocabulary (15 in total)
the same generation; coeval
antique; vintage item
annals; chronicle; chronology
Examples (17 in total)
She was born in the 1950s.
The 1990s began with the Gulf War.
The 1990s began with the Gulf incident.
This song was popular in the 1970s.
He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.
Germany adopted a social security system in the 1880's.
No one knows what will happen in the 1990's.
The 1990's saw various incidents.
What's your favorite 90's song?
In the 1600s, tea was introduced into Europe from India.
The institution was established in the late 1960s.
It was in the 1920s that a big earthquake destroyed Tokyo.
In the seventies, the Japanese economy made a remarkable leap.
Frankfurters were first sold in the United States in the 1860s.
The decline can be traced to the 1950s.
There were demonstrations against the government by Japanese university students in the 1960's.
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.