Illustration: In a Japanese family’s courtyard, an elderly woman holds an old photograph beside the tree it depicts. In the photograph, she is a young adult kneeling next to a newly planted sapling, with the courtyard’s distinctive stone basin behind her.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

以い前ぜん

izen

the past, before

Example sentences

以前いぜんはこの丘おかの上うえに城しろがあった。
There used to be a castle on this hill.
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彼かれは以前いぜんここに住すんでいた。
He used to live here.
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彼かれは以前いぜんとは違ちがう。
He is not what he used to be.
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Kanji in 以前

以by means of; becauseOnイKunもって
前in front; beforeOnゼンKunまえ

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