Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bicycle shop, a commuter steadies a bicycle while two mechanics inspect it from opposite ends. One crouches at the front wheel directly beneath the handlebars, and the other crouches at the rear wheel below the luggage rack.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

前ぜん後ご

zengo

front and back, back and forth

Example sentences

彼かれは首くびを前後ぜんごに振ふりました。
He shook his head back and forth.
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腕うでを前後ぜんごに振ふりなさい。
Swing your arm back and forth.
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ランプが前後ぜんごにゆれていた。
The lamp was swinging back and forth.
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Kanji in 前後

前in front; beforeOnゼンKunまえ
後behind; backOnゴ・コウKunのち・うしろ・うしろ

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