Illustration: Two adult friends sit shoulder to shoulder on the veranda of a Japanese family home, laughing over an old photograph held between them. The photograph clearly shows their younger selves at the same veranda, wearing kindergarten smocks and sharing a toy dump truck.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

幼おさななじみ

osananajimi

childhood friend

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれとは幼おさななじみです。

    He is a childhood friend.

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  2. 私わたしはトムの幼おさななじみです。

    I’m a childhood friend of Tom’s.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 幼馴染おさななじみが音楽家おんがくかになった。

    My childhood friend became a musician.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 幼

  • 幼infancy; childhoodOnヨウKunおさない

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