Illustration: In a Japanese apartment kitchen, a parent holds the calendar page just removed from the wall calendar beside its newly exposed page. Both pages have complete monthly grids of empty day boxes.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

先せん月げつ

sengetsu

last month

Example sentences

  1. 先月せんげつは、ほとんど雨あめが降ふらなかった。

    We had little rain last month.

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  2. 母ははは先月せんげつから病気びょうきだ。

    My mother has been sick since last month.

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  3. 私わたしは先月せんげつ風邪かぜをひいた。

    I caught a cold last month.

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Kanji in 先月

  • 先before; aheadOnセンKunさき・まず
  • 月month; moonOnゲツ・ガツKunつき

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