始め – JLPT N5 Vocabulary

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始め

hajime

Meaning

    beginning, start
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Here is a list of examples based on the word 始め

日本語英語
退職を契機に茶道を始めた。I took the opportunity of retirement to begin studying the tea ceremony.
来週から中間テストだ。一夜漬けじゃ、太刀打ちできない問題ばかりだぞ。今日から始めろよ。Midterm exams start next week. Just cramming the night before won’t get you ready. There’ll be a lot of tough questions. You should start studying today.
患者の体内で再び脈打ち始める。In the patient’s body the pulse began beating again.
彼がいきなり、アナウンサーのまねをしてしゃべり始めたので笑ってしまった。He suddenly started doing an impression of an announcer and we all cracked up.
また一方で、若者たちは仏教に触れる中で、仏教を心の支えに必要なものと考え始めているようだ。On the other hand, there seem to be those among young folk who, while touching on Buddhism, have started to think of it as a vital spiritual support.
手始めは、三大宗教の聖地、エルサレムを訪れることだった。For a start, I visited Jerusalem – a sacred place for three major religions.
薬を飲み始めると、すぐに痛みなどの症状はとれてきますが、すぐに潰瘍がなおるわけではありません。When you start taking medicine it begins working on symptoms, like pain, right away, but that doesn’t mean that the ulcer heals right away.
夜が近づいて、人々は家路につき始めた。Night coming on, people began to get home.
まだ、完了と言うところまで行っていないが、そこそこ成果が出始めてきた。It’s not yet what you’d call finished but we’re starting to get pretty good results.
山の麓に日が昇るが早いかただ一人山を登り始めた。The sun had barely risen at the foot of the mountain when she set out alone up the slope.
ふたをして始めは強火、沸騰したら中火にして約7分間煮ます。Put the lid on and start at high flame, when it boils set to medium flame and boil for about seven minutes.
かわりに「ある程度」「多くの」「しばしば」という言葉を使い、「私の経験では」「間違っていたら申し訳ないのですが」「多くの例では」のような言葉を皮切りに話を始めなさい。Instead use words like “some”, “many”, “often”, and begin statements with openers like, “In my experience, …”, “Excuse me if I’m wrong, but…”, “In many instances, ….”
明るい笑顔で2人は光り輝く未来を歩み始めたんだ。Smiling cheerfully, the two began to walk off into their brilliant future.
私たちは姉妹3人で喫茶店を始めた。We three sisters opened a coffee shop.
運動のためプールにも通い始めた頃でした。That was when I started going to the pool for exercise.
彼は30歳になってはじめて絵を描き始めた。It was not until he was thirty that he started to paint.

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