Word Meaning 十年

じゅうねん juunen

十年 is read as じゅうねん (juunen) and means ten years.

Meaning

English

  1. ten years
  2. decade

Reading

Kana

じゅうねん

Romaji

juunen

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 8 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 1 Kanken 10級 Rank 94121 Priority O

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

十箇年

じゅうかねん

decennial

十年選手

じゅうねんせんしゅ

veteran (at a job)

十五年戦争

じゅうごねんせんそう

Asia-Pacific War (starting with the Manchurian Incident in 1931 and ending with the Japanese surrender in 1945)

十年一昔

じゅうねんひとむかし

the pace of change makes ten years back seem like ancient history

幕内十年

まくうちじゅうねん

10 year career in the highest division is enough for anyone

数十年

すうじゅうねん

few decades

遺恨十年

いこんじゅうねん

grudge of ten years' standing

五十年祭

ごじゅうねんさい

jubilee

三十年戦争

さんじゅうねんせんそう

Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

明治二十七八年戦役

めいじにじゅうしちはちねんせんえき

Meiji 27-28 Campaign (alternate name for the First Sino-Japanese war; 1894-1895)

明治十四年の政変

めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん

ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)

じゅう

book containing a collection of poems

Example Sentences

10

わたしはにじゅうねんここにすんでいる。

I have lived here for twenty years.

I saw him after ten years.

He has been dead for ten years.

It is ten years since my father died.

Just about everything is the same as with 10 years before.

It has been ten years since I left Japan.

He's been teaching for 20 years.

I lived abroad for ten years.

The factory was shut down ten years ago.

They have been married for twenty years.