Japanese word
以前
いぜん
In your course · Chapter 25
- Part of speech
- adverb
- Level
- B1
- Frequency
- No. 304 in the course corpus
Meanings
- previously
- before
- prior to
- ago
- the past
- former times
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 以
- On reading:
- イ
- Kun reading:
- もっ.て
- Meanings:
- by means of, because, in view of, compared with
- 前
- On reading:
- ゼン
- Kun reading:
- -まえ、まえ
- Meanings:
- in front, before
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))