先 (せん): priority, precedence, previous — Japanese vocabulary
先 is read せん and means "priority, precedence, previous". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.
先
- Reading
- せん · sen
- Translation
- priority, precedence, previous
- Level
- JLPT N1
- Pitch accent
- せんが
Example
その少年は先週末、野球のボールで窓ガラスを割った。
そのしょうねんはせんしゅうまつ、やきゅうのボールでまどガラスをわった。
The boy broke the window with a baseball last weekend.
Kanji in this word
- 先 — previous, ahead
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