Illustration: In a sunlit home kitchen, a parent prepares lunch while a child waits at the table with chopsticks already held upright in anticipation. A large analog clock with plain tick marks shows eleven thirty: its minute hand points down and its hour hand sits halfway between eleven and twelve.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

昼ひる前まえ

hirumae

late morning

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれらは昼前ひるまえに連絡れんらくします。

    They will contact us before midday today.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 昼前ひるまえからは雨あめが降ふり出だした。

    It started raining in late morning.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. この列車れっしゃは青森あおもりを三十分遅さんじゅっぷんおくれで出発しゅっぱつしたので、東京とうきょうには昼前ひるまえには到着とうちゃくしないと思おもう。

    This train left Aomori thirty minutes late, so we won’t arrive at Tokyo before noon, I’m afraid.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 昼前

  • 昼daytime; noonOnチュウKunひる
  • 前in front; beforeOnゼンKunまえ

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