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初め (はじめ): beginning, start — Japanese vocabulary

初め is read はじめ and means "beginning, start". JLPT N5 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

初め

Reading
はじめ · hajime
Translation
beginning, start
Level
JLPT N5
Pitch accent
はじめが

Example

初めは日本語が全然分かりませんでした。

はじめはにほんごがぜんぜんわかりませんでした。

At first, I didn't understand Japanese at all.

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