サンネン – Vocabulary details

サンネン

Noun

1. three years

サ

ンネン

three; 3

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

third-year student

perseverance prevails; (lit.) three years on a (cold) stone (will make the stone warm)

it often takes time for one's actions to bear fruit; (lit.) planted peach and chestnut seeds take three years (to bear fruit), persimmons take eight

私わたしはさんねんサンネン待まち続つづけている。

I've been waiting for three years.

彼かれは日に本ほんにさんねんサンネンいます。

He has been in Japan for three years.

彼かれが亡なくなってさんねんサンネンになります。

It is three years since he died.

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