Illustration: At a family kitchen table, a mother and child examine a homemade calendar with wordless monthly grids. Its current sheet remains attached to the backing, with a small movable clip marking today.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

先せん々せん月げつ

sensengetsu

the month before last

Example sentences

  1. 今日きょうの田中君たなかくんが休やすんだ理由りゆうは、おばあさんが亡なくなったって?確たしか先月せんげつも先々月せんせんげつもそう言いってなかったか?ずる休やすみするにしても、もう少すこしましな理由りゆうはないのかね。

    So the reason that Tanaka stayed home today was because his grandmother died? Didn’t he say that last month, and the month before that, too? Skipping is one thing, but I’d like him to at least come up with a better excuse than that.

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  2. 父ちちは先々月せんせんげつから新あたらしい仕事しごとをしています。

    My father has been at a new job since the month before last.

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  3. その店みせには先々月せんせんげつ、友達ともだちと行いきました。

    I went to that shop with a friend the month before last.

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Kanji in 先々月

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

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