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The Japanese word for time is
時間

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time

Japanese Definition


time
     1. 名詞. 時間。
     2. 名詞. 回。
     3. 名詞. 倍。
     4. 動詞. （他動詞）時間を計る。
     5. 動詞. （自動詞）拍子を合わす。
     6. 形容詞. 時の。
     7. 形容詞. 時限式の。

Translations for time and their definitions

回
     1. counter. a turn, times around something
     2. affix. turn; revolve
     3. affix. return; go back
     4. affix. time; occasion
     5. affix. (dated) Hui; Islam
     6. affix. alternative form of ja 蛔 t=roundworm; intestinal worm (kai)
     7. counter. occurrences
           一週間に二%回 - twice a week
     8. counter. innings in baseball, games, rounds
     9. counter. (Kansai) indicating year of university students
           一回生 - freshmen (in university)
     10. n. time, occasion
     11. n. turn, round
     12. n. episode, chapter
           次回 - next episode
     13. n. (baseball softball) inning
     14. affix. turn; turn around


時間
     1. n. time
           時間 は あります か？ - Do you have any time?
           時間 は いつ で も 大丈夫 です。 - literally As for time, whenever is fine.
           もう こんな 時間！ - literally it's already this sort of time!
           時間 に ルーズ - literally lax about time
           時間 と 空間 の 関係 - the relationship between time and space
     2. n. hour
           1%時間 は 60%分 です。 - One hour is 60 minutes.
     3. n. the hours or time when something happens
           試験 時間 に 遅れた - literally late to the time of the exam
           営業 時間 は 月火水、午前 ９%時 から 午後 ２%時 まで です。 - Business hours are Monday to Wednesday, 9 AM to 2 PM.
           開館 時間 - hours of operation
           時間 です！ - literally It's time!
           閉園 の 時間 です！ - literally It's time for our closing!
           あまり 時間 が なくて すみません - sorry for not having the time to do something
     4. n. Usage: The more general word for time, as in "when something happens", is 時.
      Usage: *     海辺に行った時 - the time I went to the beach, when I went to the beach
     5. counter. an hour-long period
           一時間、二時間、五時間半 - one hour, two hours, five and a half hours
           何時間もかかりそうです。 - Apparently it will take many hours.
     6. n. (dialect Ibaraki) time
     7. n. (dialect Ibaraki) hour
     8. n. (dialect Ibaraki) the hours or time when something happens
     9. counter. (dialect Ibaraki) an hour-long period


次
     1. affix. next, secondary
     2. affix. following
     3. affix. Usage: Only found in compounds.
     4. counter. number of times: an ordinal marker
           第四次計画 - the fourth plan
     5. counter. number in a sequence, number of aspects or dimensions
           二次方程式、三次式 - a quadratic equation, a third order expression
     6. n. (rare) order, sequence
     7. n. Usage: Seldom found in isolation.
     8. prefix. (attached to nouns) the next, secondary, vice-
           次位、次長 - second rank, vice-director
     9. prefix. (chemistry) hypo- (used to distinguish the oxidation levels of various acids)
           亜塩素 酸、次亜塩素 酸、亜臭素 酸、次亜臭素 酸 - chlorous acid, hypochlorous acid, bromous acid, hypobromous acid
     10. n. next, order, sequence, below
           子供たちは次のように述べています。 - The children said as follows.
     11. n. (Shinto) at the 大嘗祭 and other major Shintō ceremonies, refers to the group of regional representatives making offerings of sake and grain, who do so after the initial offering
     12. n. order, sequence
     13. n. follower, successor; the next thing in a sequence
     14. n. a good opportunity to do something; doing something incidental to something else
     15. n. Usage: The good opportunity sense is more often encountered as


度
     1. n. time; whenever
     2. counter. times
     3. suffix. time
     4. suffix. -itude
     5. suffix. (geometry) degree of an angle
     6. suffix. degree in temperature, scale, and so on
     7. suffix. number of times
     8. suffix. percentage of alcohol concentration
     9. suffix. (topics, ja, Geometry)


時代
     1. n. age, era, period (of time)
     2. n. the times, spirit of the age
     3. n. antiquity
     4. n. a time in one's life, one's days (in college etc.)


時期
     1. n. time for doing something
     2. n. period of time
     3. n. season


時刻
     1. n. time, the hour


時
     1. n. time
           時の流れ - the flow of time
     2. n. an event, case, occasion, moment; a specific period in time
           困った時は私に相談してください。 - Please consult with me when troubled (in times of trouble).
     3. n. a time of something
     4. n. a season
     5. n. a tense
     6. n. (literary) the time during which a narrative takes place
           時は冬 - It was winter, ...
     7. suffix. time of..., time for...
     8. counter. hour, o’clock
           時計 を 見る と、ちょうど １２%時 ３４%分 ５６%秒 だった。 - When I looked at the clock, it was just 12:34 and 56 seconds.
     9. suffix. at the time of...
     10. affix. time, moment
     11. affix. at that time, chance, occasion
     12. affix. hour, hourly
     13. n. (obsolete) (only used in, ja, 時過ぐ, tr=sada sugu): to pass through the prime of life, grow old


タイム
     1. n. (sports or, in compounds) time
           映画 鑑賞 タイム - movie appreciation time
     2. n. time out in a game or match
     3. n. thyme



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