Lingaku昔【むかし】
Frequency rank: 832.
- olden days; former
nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'; noun (common) (futsuumeishi); adverb (fukushi)
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- 昔【むかし】Frequency rank: 832.
- むかしFrequency rank: 35,666. – 36,081.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- olden days; former
"昔" is used to refer to past periods of time, usually a long time ago.
Generated collocations (experimental)
むかし昔のはなし話story from the olden daysむかし昔のひと人people from the former timesむかしながら昔ながらtraditional; old-fashionedむかし昔のともだち友達friends from the pastむかし昔へもどる戻るto go back to the olden daysむかし昔をおもいだす思い出すto reminisce about the pastむかし昔のしゅうかん習慣customs from former timesむかしながら昔ながらのぶんか文化traditional cultureむかし昔のできごと出来事events from the pastむかし昔のおもいで思い出memories from the olden days
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Example sentences
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This is an early work, I did it freely without storyboarding so it's unreasonably long.
Haru's always been like that; he's very kind at heart.
NB: This was drawn a long time ago so the quality is low.
She used to be flat-chested - just when did she get so large?
In the past it was perfectly normal to get the back of a teacher's hand or fist as punishment.
I don't know about the past, but now we have faxes and emails.
That's because, you see, I've known he isn't that sort of person from a long time back.
She used to keep a diary, but she no longer does.