- for the first timesee also
- only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; not until ... do you ...after the -te form of a verb
- first time; (one's) firstcolloquialism
adverb (fukushi); nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
adverb (fukushi)
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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- for the first time
- only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; not until ... do you ...
- first time; (one's) first
Used to indicate that something is being done or experienced for the first time.
Expresses the idea that something only happens after a certain specific condition is met.
Refers to the initial experience of something or someone's first instance of doing something.
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Amazing! This moving a story is a first for me! It's truly an epic among epics!
When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.
The first 'that time of the month' I seem to remember worrying that I was ill, without telling anybody, for two days.
This time I stayed for the first time in a private villa, and it was really quite something.
No, it's a national treasure, you see. This is the first time we've seen it as well.
"It is when you overcome that, that a boy becomes something-something" "If you're trying to say something important sounding keep talking right to the end!"