晩ばん年ねん

Meanings

Usage patterns

• 〈人ひと〉が晩ばん年ねんを過すごすto spend one's later years (somewhere/doing something)

  彼かれは晩ばん年ねんを静しずかな田舎いなか町まちで過すごした。

  He spent his later years in a quiet country town.

• 晩ばん年ねんを迎むかえるto enter one's final years

  画が家かは病びょう気きを乗のり越こえ、穏おだやかな晩ばん年ねんを迎むかえた。

  The painter overcame illness and entered a peaceful old age.

• 晩ばん年ねんになって〈動どう詞し〉to (do something) late in one's life

  彼かれは晩ばん年ねんになってようやく小しょう説せつを書かき始はじめた。

  It was only in his later years that he finally began writing novels.