年 (nián) means Year (age - old). Below are 24 of the 56 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
我女儿今 年 三岁。
Wǒ nǚ'ér jīnnián sān suì.
My daughter is three years old this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 女儿
我弟弟今 年 八岁。
Wǒ dìdi jīnnián bā suì.
My younger brother is eight this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 弟弟
一 年 有四个季节。
Yì nián yǒu sì gè jìjié.
There are four seasons in a year.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 季节
我弟弟上三 年 级。
Wǒ dìdi shàng sān niánjí.
My younger brother is in the third grade.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 年级
我学中文两 年 了。
Wǒ xué Zhōngwén liǎng nián le.
I have studied Chinese for two years.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 中文
他主要教三 年 级。
Tā zhǔyào jiāo sān niánjí.
He mainly teaches the third grade.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 主要
From the graded readers
我和小林是十 年 的朋友。
wǒ hé xiǎo lín shì shínián de / dì péngyou.
Xiaolin and I had been friends for ten years.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
我离开老家已经十 年 了。
wǒ líkāi lǎojiā yǐjīng shínián le / liǎo / liào.
It's been ten years since I left my home town.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
两 年 前，我决定开始跑步。
liǎng niánqián, wǒ juédìng kāishǐ pǎobù.
Two years ago I decided to start running.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
她今 年 十六岁，比我大一岁。
tā jīnnián shíliù suì, bǐ wǒ dà yī suì.
She's sixteen this year, one year older than me.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili
她教中文已经教了二十 年 了。
tā jiāo zhōngwén yǐjīng jiāo le / liǎo / liào èrshí nián le / liǎo / liào.
She's been teaching Chinese for twenty years.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
去 年 我考试没考好，很难过。
qùnián wǒ kǎoshì méi kǎo hǎo / hào, hěn nán'guò.
Last year I did badly in an exam and felt terrible.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
今 年 我因为工作，没能回去。
jīnnián wǒ yīnwèi gōngzuò, méi néng huíqu.
This year I couldn't get back because of work.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Mid-Autumn Festival
去 年 爸爸来看我工作的地方。
qùnián bàba láikàn wǒ gōngzuò de / dì dìfang.
Last year my father came to see where I work.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
今 年 春天，我终于回去了一趟。
jīnnián chūntiān, wǒ zhōngyú huíqu le / liǎo / liào yī tàng.
This spring I finally went back.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Going Back Home
From the travel phrasebook
From the grammar library
我学了两 年 中文。
Wǒ xué le liǎng nián Zhōngwén.
I studied Chinese for two years.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Where time words go
年 appears in 56 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 年
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 年
How is 年 used in a sentence?
This page shows 56 sentences using 年 (nián, "Year (age - old)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 年 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 年 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 年 an HSK word?
Yes — 年 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 年?
The dictionary page for 年 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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