忘年会
Japanese
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忘 | 年 | 会 |
ぼう Grade: 6 | ねん Grade: 1 | かい Grade: 2 |
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忘年會 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
忘年 (bōnen, “forget the bad things of last year”) + 会 (kai, “gathering”)
Pronunciation
- On’yomi
- (Tokyo) ぼーねんかい [bòónéꜜǹkàì] (Nakadaka – [3])
- IPA(key): [bo̞ːnẽ̞ŋka̠i]
Noun
忘年会 • (bōnenkai) ←ばうねんくわい (baunenkwai)?
- a year-end party where people get drunk to "forget" about the bad things of last year
- Nakamura, Hikaru, “その90 松田ハイツの秘密 [Chapter 90: Mitsuda Heights’s Secret]”, in 聖☆おにいさん [Saint☆Young Men], volume 12 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha:
- 忘年会——…その年の苦労を分かちあった者たちと……苦労を忘れ来年への英気を養う会である
- Bōnenkai——… Sono toshi no kurō o wakachiatta monotachi to…… Kurō o wasure rainen e no eiki o yashinau kai de aru
- The forgetting-last-year party… where those who have hardships from last year… gather to forget about them, and to look forward to the next year.
- 忘年会——…その年の苦労を分かちあった者たちと……苦労を忘れ来年への英気を養う会である
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