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Narrator: Today's word is "Years" — noun, pronounced /jɪəz/, with the stress on "years".
Narrator: Years is the plural of year, or informally a very long time.
Narrator: In plain English, it means more than one year, or ages.
Narrator: It adds s to year, from Old English gēar.
Narrator: A common collocation is "for years", which describes a long time.
Narrator: It differs from "decades", because a decade is exactly ten years.
Narrator: In a second sense, "years old" gives someone's age.
Narrator: Everyday speech, history, finance and science all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: years add up to a lifetime.
Speaker A: When did you last see your cousin?
Speaker B: Not for YEARS! Plural of year.
Speaker A: That long?
Speaker B: Since school.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She's ten years old", age. "It took years to finish", effort. "In recent years prices rose", economics.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Write "ten years old", but "a ten-year-old girl", without the s before a noun.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Decades are its cousin, ages its twin, and a lifetime an alternative — yet years keep their passing charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "years" in AI prompts — useful for age calculations and timelines.
Speaker A: How for ages?
Speaker B: Calculate.
Prompt: Calculate someone’s age in years from their date of birth.
Speaker A: And timelines?
Speaker B: History.
Prompt: Create a timeline of the last hundred years of flight.
Speaker A: Could it help finance?
Speaker B: Yes, for savings.
Prompt: Show how savings grow over ten years at four percent interest.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Grammar.
Prompt: Explain ten years old versus a ten-year-old with examples.
Years — meaning in Arabic & definition More Y courses GL Dictionary