Illustration: A parent and child sit on the floor beside an open storage box in their apartment. The parent has arranged the child's saved shoes in a clear progression: tiny baby booties, first walking shoes, small preschool sneakers, and the well-worn pair just outgrown.

JLPT N4adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

今いままで

imamade

until now, so far

Example sentences

  1. 今いままでどこにいたの。

    Where have you been up to now?

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  2. 私わたしは今いままで忙いそがしかった。

    I have been busy so far.

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  3. 今いままで発音はつおんを間違まちがえてたよ。

    We’ve been pronouncing it wrong the entire time.

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Kanji in 今

  • 今nowOnコン・キンKunいま

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