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去年 (きょねん): Last year — Japanese vocabulary

去年 is read きょねん and means "Last year". JLPT N5 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

去年

Reading
きょねん · kyonen
Translation
Last year
Level
JLPT N5
Pitch accent
きょねんが

Example

去年の秋、初めて日本へ旅行に行きました。

きょねんのあき、はじめてにほんへりょこうにいきました。

Last autumn, I traveled to Japan for the first time.

Kanji in this word

  • 去 — go away, last
  • 年 — year

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