year – English noun declension

English noun forms of year

Noun: year
Singularyear
Pluralyears

Sample Sentences

  • we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
  • Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
  • Shepard: What can you tell me about the Citadel Council?
  • Avina: Originally, the Council consisted of representatives from the asari and salarians, the two dominant species in Citadel space.
  • Roughly 1,304 galactic standard years ago, turians were invited to join the Council in recognition of the role they played during the Krogan Rebellion. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citdael:]
  • A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
  • I was born in the year 1950.
  • This Chinese year is the year of the Ox.
  • Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. [2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:]
  • Construction of the world’s tallest unoccupied skyscraper may resume as early as next week, almost 10 years after work ground to a halt, according to Chinese state media. [2025 April 24, Oscar Holland, “Construction of world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper to resume after a decade”, in CNN:]
  • During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
  • Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
  • The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
  • I'm the oldest student in my year because I've repeated twice.
  • Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.

Nouns inflected like year

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥der.
4. Proto-Germanic *jērą
5. Proto-West Germanic *jār
6. Old English ġēar
7. Middle English yeer
8. English year
9. From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, spring”). Doublet of hora and hour.
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots year (“year”), North Frisian djooar, iir, Jaar, jeer, juar, jäär (“year”), Saterland Frisian Jíer (“year”), West Frisian jier (“year”), Bavarian Joahr, Jåar, Jåhr (“year”), Cimbrian djar, jaar (“year”), Dutch jaar (“year”), German Jahr (“year”), Limburgish jaor, Johr, Joër (“year”), Low German Johr, Jåhr (“year”), Luxembourgish Joer (“year”), Mòcheno jor (“year”), Swabian Johr (“year”), Vilamovian jür (“year”), West Flemish joar (“year”), Yiddish יאָר (yor), יאָהר (yohr, “year”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish år (“year”), Faroese and Icelandic ár (“year”), Gothic 𐌾𐌴𐍂 (jēr, “year”). See: Middle English Nouns 'yeer', Dutch Nouns 'jaar', German Nouns 'Jahr', Gothic Nouns '𐌾𐌴𐍂'.

Verbs referencing "year"

German Nouns Jahr, Czech Nouns jaro, Faroese Nouns ár, Icelandic Nouns ár, Old Norse Nouns ár, Ancient Greek Nouns ὥρα.