Word Meaning 百年前

ひゃくねんまえ hyakunemmae

百年前 is read as ひゃくねんまえ (hyakunemmae) and means one hundred years ago.

Meaning

English

  1. one hundred years ago
  2. a hundred year previously

Reading

Kana

ひゃくねんまえ

Romaji

hyakunemmae

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 21 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N5 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 105247 Priority Q

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

百年の孤独

ひゃくねんのこどく

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez)

百年戦争

ひゃくねんせんそう

Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

百年河清

ひゃくねんかせい

waiting for one hundred years for the waters of the Yellow River to clear

百年祭

ひゃくねんさい

centenary

百年目

ひゃくねんめ

the hundredth year

百年国恥

ひゃくねんこくち

century of humiliation (in Chinese history)

数年前

すうねんまえ

a few years ago

前年

ぜんねん

the preceding year

年百年中

ねんびゃくねんじゅう

throughout the year

前年度

ぜんねんど

preceding fiscal year

千九百年代

せんきゅうひゃくねんだい

the 1900s

前年同月比

ぜんねんどうげつひ

compared to the same month the previous year (e.g. in statistics, sales, electricity usage)

Example Sentences

3

ひゃくねんまえ、このまちにはえきがなかった。

A hundred years ago, this town didn't have a station.

The house was built several hundred years ago.

This novel describes the life of the Japanese as it was a hundred years ago.