歳
歳
year-end, age, occasion, opportunity
13 strokesFrequency 269JLPT N2Grade 8
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... years old; age (of) ...
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「１７歳の時スクーナー船で地中海を航海したわ」彼女はゆっくりと注意深く言う。
"I sailed around the Mediterranean in a schooner when I was seventeen," she recited slowly and carefully.
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year
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一月は年の一番目の月です。
January is the first month of the year.
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age; years
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お年をお聞きしてよろしいでしょうか。
Might I ask your age?
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past one's prime; old age
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20 years old
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彼女は二十歳だと言ったが、それは嘘だった。
She said she was twenty years old, which was not true.
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二十／廿 only; Archaic
twenty
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millennium; one thousand years; long time
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Interjection; Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb; Celebratory cheer; trad. shouted while raising both arms in the air
banzai; hurray; hurrah; hooray
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彼が金メダルをとったという知らせをきき、私たちは万歳と叫んだ。
We cried banzai at the news that he won the gold medal.
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something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration
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Noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru; Intransitive verb
giving up; throwing one's hands up
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eternal life and prosperity
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女王万歳。
Long live the Queen!
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time; years
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移住者の部落が野蛮人によって征服され、移住者の希望も生活も土壇場にきた時、長い歳月をかけての不幸とのたたかいに終止符がうたれた。
Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.
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