Illustration: Morning sunlight enters a Japanese apartment where a family is just beginning the day. A child with sleep-tousled hair sits at the breakfast table in pajamas, reaching for a bowl of rice while a parent serves steaming miso soup.

JLPT N5adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

今朝けさ

kesa

this morning

Example sentences

  1. 今朝けさはとても寒さむかった。

    It was very cold this morning.

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  2. 今朝けさは何なにをしたの？

    What did you do this morning?

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  3. 今朝けさ地震じしんがあった。

    There was an earthquake this morning.

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Kanji in 今朝

  • 今nowOnコン・キンKunいま
  • 朝morning; dynastyOnチョウKunあさ

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