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VocabJLPT N1

same year

NounAdverb

Definitions

1. that year
2. same year

A noun meaning "the same year." It is used to refer back to a year already mentioned in a text, functioning similarly to saying "that same year" in English, and is frequently found in historical writing or formal documents.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

What exactly was this "miracle of that year" he keeps talking about?

Sentence 2

Watching the sunset, I was flooded with memories of that summer — it hit me right in the chest!

Sentence 3

What time of year did that accident happen again?

Sentence 4

He said "I built my house that year" and launched into the whole story about his mortgage.

Sentence 5

If I remember right, you were the MC at the school festival that year, weren't you?