Illustration: In a Japanese apartment entrance, a woman fastens a well-used hiking pack before finally setting out on a mountain trip. Beside her shoes lies a long-kept mountain photograph, its corners worn from handling, and a stack of repeatedly folded route sheets showing only paths and terrain.

JLPT N1adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

かねて

kanete

for some time, previously

兼ねて can also be a form of the separate verb 兼ねる. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

お顔かおはかねてから知しっております。
Your face is familiar to me.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
その上うえに顕光あきみつはかねてから無能むのうで知しられていた。
Furthermore, Akimitsu was known to be incompetent.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
それ以外いがいは一般いっぱんにかねてより計画けいかくされたものとなる。
Otherwise imperial visits are usually scheduled in advance.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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