戦時中(せんじちゅう)

せんじちゅう
noun
during the war; in wartime
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1. during the war; in wartime
The period during which a war is being fought. In Japanese contexts most often refers to World War II (specifically the wartime years from the late 1930s to 1945), but can also describe any ongoing war.
戦時中(せんじちゅう)は食料(しょくりょう)が足(た)りなかった。
Food was in short supply during the war.
祖母(そぼ)は戦時中(せんじちゅう)の思(おも)い出(で)をよく話(はな)してくれた。
My grandmother often told me about her memories from the war years.
戦時中(せんじちゅう)は言論(げんろん)の自由(じゆう)が厳(きび)しく制限(せいげん)されていた。
During the war, freedom of speech was severely restricted.

戦時(せんじ) (wartime) + 中(ちゅう) (during, in the middle of). Functions as a temporal noun, often used adverbially as 戦時中(せんじちゅう)に.

Common collocations

Similar words

  • 戦中(せんちゅう): wartime — shorter literary variant with the same meaning
  • 戦前(せんぜん): prewar — refers to the period before the war
  • 戦後(せんご): postwar — refers to the period after the war

Related Words

Compare: 戦前(せんぜん) (prewar)
Compare: 戦後(せんご) (postwar)
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