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/ˈaɲo/
Translation
year
Word origin
From Latin annus ('year'). The same word gives English 'annual', 'anniversary' and 'biennial'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- annus
- English cognates
- annual, anniversary, biennial
Grammar
Examples
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This year has been very special for us.
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Next year I am going to live abroad.
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She has been working at that company for three years.
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I have lived in this city for five years.
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At twenty years old he left home.
Where this fits
Used in
Stories
(11)Pedro conoce a alguien
2 min read · Core 5000
Es importante que descanses
3 min read · Core 5000
La fábrica de madera
3 min read · Core 5000
La llamada
3 min read · Core 1000
La promesa de Lucía
3 min read · Core 5000
Le echo de menos
3 min read · Core 5000
Lo que de verdad importa
3 min read · Core 5000
María lleva una hora esperando
3 min read · Core 5000
La cena de los Pereira
4 min read · Core 1000
Los puestos del sábado
4 min read · Core 1000
Palabras de cocina
5 min read · Core 1000
Grammar articles
(17)Spanish Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
Spanish Causative Verbs: hacer, dejar, mandar + Infinitive (me hizo esperar, le hice arreglar el coche)
Spanish Compound Tenses: the Future Perfect and Past Anterior (habré hablado, hube hablado)
Spanish Demonstrative Adjectives: este, ese, aquel and the Three-Way Distance Split
Spanish Future Tense: ir a + Infinitive and the Inflectional Future
Spanish Noun Gender: The -o/-a Rule, the Ending Patterns, and the Exceptions Worth Memorising
Spanish Noun Plurals: Add -s, Add -es, Swap -z for -ces, and the Nouns That Never Change
The Passive with ser in Spanish (fue escrito por, fueron construidas)
Spanish Present Perfect: he hablado, ha vivido, hemos visto
The Spanish Present Progressive: estar + gerundio, and Why It Is Not the English -ing
Preterite vs Imperfect: How to Choose Between the Two Spanish Past Tenses
Spanish Preterite: hablé, comí, viví and the Big Irregular Group
Spanish Quantifiers: mucho, poco, demasiado, todo, cada (mucha gente vs trabaja mucho)
Spanish Relative Pronouns: que, quien, lo que, donde and cuando
Saber vs Conocer: The Two Spanish Verbs for 'To Know'
Spanish Superlatives: El Mejor, El Más, and the -ísimo Ending
Spanish Verbal Periphrases: acabar de, llevar, volver a, seguir + verb
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