年nin4頭tau4

English

1. start of the year
2. year; used to convey a sense of passage of time, can only be used for duration and never with 前 cin4 (back, ago) or 後 hau6 (after)
3. beginning of a year
4. whole year
5. a particular year
6. period
7. days
8. epoch
9. a year's harvest

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 年；用嚟表達時間流逝（唔可以同前、後共用）
2. 一年嘅開始；年初

Examples

• 三個年頭

  three years

• 年頭出世

  born at the beginning of the year

• 我喺度打工已經十個年頭喇。

  It's been ten years since I started working here.

• 別忘了這年頭好工作已經很難找了。

  Don't forget that good jobs are very hard to come by these days.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 婚姻走过十个年头一切只是例行公事。

  Ten years after the wedding, everything is just routine.

  Tatoeba · murr CC BY