Illustration: In the storage room of a family home, an adult stands beside a small violin case left undisturbed on a high shelf. Dust coats its closed lid, and an old unlettered photograph tucked against it shows the same person as a young child holding that violin.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

久ひさしい

hisashii

long since, long past

Example sentences

  1. この習慣しゅうかんは絶たえて久ひさしい。

    This custom became extinct a long time ago.

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  2. その習慣しゅうかんが廃止はいしされて久ひさしい。

    The practice has long been done away with.

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  3. 久ひさしく会あっていませんね。

    I haven’t seen you for a long time.

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Kanji in 久

  • 久long time; old storyOnキュウ・クKunひさしい

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