Illustration: At a small community theater entrance, an attendant replaces the opening-time display clock with an identical unnumbered clock whose hands indicate one hour earlier. A second attendant carries the old clock away, keeping both faces visible.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

早はやまる

hayamaru

to be moved earlier

Example sentences

  1. 就職活動しゅうしょくかつどうの時期じきは早はやまる傾向けいこうにあり、マスコミ各社かくしゃの面接めんせつがその先頭せんとうにたっている。

    The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it’s the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 温暖化おんだんかによって、飛散開始ひさんかいしが早はやまっている傾向けいこうがあるとの指摘してきもある。

    It has also been identified that global warming is causing the pollen dispersal season to occur earlier.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 会議かいぎの開始かいしが一時間いちじかん早はやまった。

    The meeting was moved up by an hour.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 早

  • 早early; fastOnソウ・サッKunはやい・はや・はや-

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