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N4Noun
🕐Time & Dates
正月
shougatsu
New Year, New Year's Day
Example sentence
彼は一年近くもアルコール類を断っていたが、お正月の頃に禁を破ってまた元に戻ってしまった。
He had been dry for almost a year, but he fell off the wagon around New Year's Day.
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| Word | Reading | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 日 | ひ | ひsun, sunshine, day | |
| 月 | つき | つきmoon (general word) | |
| 間 | あいだ | あいだbetween / while / interval (e.g. 友達[ともだち]と先生[せんせい]の間[あいだ] = between friend and teacher) | |
| 最近 | さいきん | さいきんrecently, nowadays, in recent years, most recent, latest | |
| 今度 | こんど | こんどnow, this time, near future, one of these days, next time | |
| 時代 | じだい | じだいage, period, epoch, era | |
| 最後 | さいご | さいごlast, end | |
| この頃 | このごろ | このごろthese days, nowadays |
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