カン
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. interval; period of time
Adverb
Noun
Suffix
2. among; between; inter-
Noun
3. good opportunity; chance
4. estrangement; discord; alienation
5. spy; secret agent
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (145 in total)
interstage; inter-section; column space
time; hour; period; class
interval between the waves; gap between waves
Examples (116 in total)
Two hours passed.
I was kept waiting for as long as two hours.
I lived here for three years.
I was three hours late.
He went on walking for two hours.
I slept nine hours.
The lecture lasted two hours.
"How long will the meeting last?" "For two hours."
The train was three hours late.
The concert lasted about three hours.
The judge called for a recess of two hours.
He put in ten hours of overtime this week.
Mr Smith has lived in Kyoto for three years.
Even though I slept for twelve hours, I'm still sleepy.
His speech lasted three hours.
Prices have been stable for the past three years.
Reconciliation among religions is the foundation of world peace.
Tom lived downtown for three years.
Her husband has been in prison for three years.
The guards change every three hours.
There is an air service between Tokyo and Moscow.
His works will endure for centuries.
I recently broke up with my boyfriend of three years.
The prince was confined in the castle for three years.
Scientists can easily compute the distance between planets.
It took three hours to put the broken toy together.
The boy has been sleeping for ten hours.
Mary always studies for two hours a day.
I spent two hours playing the piano.
It takes two hours to go to school by bus and train.
It took me two hours to memorize this sentence.
Tom and Mary talked for about three hours.
I studied English for two hours after dinner.
It took six hours to climb to the top.
This train runs between New York and Boston.
After lunch we have two more classes.
Tom felt homesick during his stay in Boston.
We must maintain the amicable relations between Japan and the U.S.
Carol has been studying Spanish for three years.
The train was delayed for two hours because of the heavy snow.
Direct flights between New York and Tokyo commenced recently.
I have lived in Sasayama for three years.
He was forced to work more than five hours on end.
I study English two hours a day on an average.
They chatted over coffee for more than two hours.
We must sleep at least seven hours a day.
It took the doctor eight hours to do the operation.
This medicine should be taken every three hours.
We have five classes every day except Saturday.
It took me more than three hours to translate this into French.
He is a diligent student. He studies three hours every day.
My usual sleeping time is from seven to nine hours.
The root of the problem is a lack of communication between departments.
Three hours is too short for us to discuss that matter.
Tom has to take medicine every three hours.
Due to bad weather, the plane arrived three hours late.
We arrived at an agreement after two hours' discussion.
If you use it more than three hours a month, there are extra charges.
A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.
This is a picture of the first train that ran between Tokyo and Yokohama.
I had been working for two hours when I suddenly felt sick.
That baby will have slept five hours by noon.
It took me more than three hours to translate that report into French.
I haven't heard from Tanaka for the last six months.
She waited for a taxi for two hours but couldn't get one.
Communications have been cut off for two hours because of a thunderstorm.
It took the fireman almost two hours to put out the fire.
It's a two-hour drive from here to my uncle's house.
The most visible forms of aggression are often seen between prey and predator.
After I graduated from college, I moved back home and lived with my parents for three years.
Let's take a 10-minute break.
I waited for ten minutes.
He will be here for four days.
I didn't eat anything for six days.
We stayed roommates for four years.
I'll stay in Athens for nine days.
I can type 50 characters in a minute.
I've been working there for three months.
You have to go to college for four years.
We have six classes a day.
It rained five days on end.
He was absent for a matter of ten days.
It has been raining for seven full days.
The play ran for six months.
I spent three months in Australia.
The newspaper reported friction between the two parties.
This offer is good for five days.
I walked for two hours in the afternoon heat.
He wrote three books in as many years.
She looked after my dog for a month.
He has been working on a new book for two months.
The office was closed for 10 days for the New Year's holiday.
They have four classes in the morning.
We flew over the Pacific Ocean for a few hours.
Take this medicine every four hours.
The boy has been absent from school for eight days.
It is a six-hour drive from Sofia to Varna.
The workman, as a rule, works eight hours a day.
He has been reading a book for four hours on end.
I studied English for four years with a native speaker.
I went on a ten-day trip to Easter Island.
The prisoner was behind bars for two months.
Lori suggested that we should take a ten-minute coffee break.
I heard that the distance between Tokyo and Osaka is about 10 km.
On average, how many times per minute does a person blink?
I work for three hours every Saturday morning.
This train runs between Tokyo and Hakata.
This machine can print sixty pages a minute.
He has been on a diet for two months.
Not a drop of rain fell for a month, so they had to dig a well.
We alternated two hours of work and ten minutes of rest.
The lack of harmony between colors makes this painting stand out.
Tom waited patiently for three hours, and then gave up.
The new secretary types about 70 words per minute.
When he broke his leg, he had to use crutches for 3 months.
He solved the problem in five minutes that I had struggled with for two hours.