Japanese word

初めて

はじめて

In your course · Chapter 22

Part of speech: adverb
Register: informal
Level: A2
Frequency: No. 233 in the course corpus

Meanings

for the first time
only after ... is it ...
only when ... do you ...
not until ... do you ...
first time
(one's) first

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Kanji

初
On reading:
ショ
Kun reading:
-そ.める、-ぞ.め、うい-、はじ.め、はじ.めて、はつ、はつ-
Meanings:
first time, beginning

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