れいねん – Vocabulary details

れいねん

Adverb

Noun

1. average (normal, ordinary) year

2. every year; annually

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custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

unusually (compared to a typical year)

今こ年としはれいねんより桜さくらは早はやいだろう。

The cherry blossoms will come out earlier than usual.

れいねんになく寒さむい冬ふゆだそうですね。

I hear that you are having an unusually cold winter.

その冬ふゆはれいねんになく暖あたたかかった。

That winter was unusually mild.

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