"きょ年はいい年でした。"
Translation:Last year was a good year.
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The kanji 年 is read as "toshi" by itself. This is the "kun-yomi" for this kanji. "Nen" is the "on-yomi," which is derived from the Chinese reading of the character. The on-yomi is used when this character is included in other words like 去年 (kyonen) above and 来年 (rainen) which means "next year." Oddly though, the word for "this year," 今年 (kotoshi) uses the kun-yomi.
I'd also like to add 先年 (せんねん) is also "former year(s)". I'm unfamiliar as to which is more common.
Thank you. I looked kyotoshi up in google translate and it corrected to "kyonen" which isn't this translation. So isn't the hiragana wrong in this example? It should read "kotoshi" instead of "kyotoshi"?
Whoops. I looked into this so long i got confused. I see this example is for last year.
Even odder, 今年 can also be pronounced こんねん. Same goes for "every year" 毎年, which can be either まいとし or まいねん.
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去年はいい年でしたwas not accepted even though in this same lesson other questions teach you the kanji for kyo
