Illustration: At a home kitchen table, a grandmother and child have just begun making dumplings. A single slightly crooked dumpling sits alone on a large empty tray. Beside it are a full stack of untouched wrappers and a bowl brimming with filling.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

最さい初しょ

saisho

beginning, first

Example sentences

  1. 最初さいしょに右手みぎてを出だしなさい。

    First, put the right hand out.

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  2. 彼かれが最初さいしょに来きた。

    He was the first to come.

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  3. 最初さいしょから始はじめよう。

    Let’s begin at the beginning.

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Kanji in 最初

  • 最utmost; mostOnサイ・シュKunもっとも・つま
  • 初first time; beginningOnショKunはじめ・はじめて・はつ

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