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Narrator: Today's word is "Year" — noun, pronounced /jɪə(r)/, with the stress on "year".
Narrator: A year is a period of twelve months or about three hundred and sixty-five days.
Narrator: In plain English, it is from one birthday to the next.
Narrator: It comes from Old English gēar.
Narrator: A common collocation is "happy new year", which describes the greeting on the first of January.
Narrator: It differs from "month", because a month is one twelfth of a year.
Narrator: In a second sense, a school year, like Year Seven, names a class level in Britain.
Narrator: Calendars, education, finance and science all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a year is one trip round the Sun.
Speaker A: What year are you in at school?
Speaker B: YEAR Nine! From Old English gēar.
Speaker A: Nearly GCSEs?
Speaker B: Starting next year.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Happy New Year!", celebrations. "The tax year starts in April", finance. "She's in Year Six", school.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say "a two-year course", not "a two-years course", before a noun.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Month is its cousin, annum its twin, and twelvemonth an alternative — yet year keeps its turning charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "year" in AI prompts — useful for date handling and reports.
Speaker A: How for dates?
Speaker B: Leap years.
Prompt: Write a function that checks whether a given year is a leap year.
Speaker A: And reports?
Speaker B: Compare.
Prompt: Compare this year’s sales with last year’s by month.
Speaker A: Could it help schools?
Speaker B: Yes, for groups.
Prompt: Convert UK school years to US grades in a table.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Finance.
Prompt: Explain the UK tax year dates in plain English.
Year — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary