前 (まえ) — front, before

前まえ front

Frequency #21 Frequency rank among common Japanese words. Lower number = more common. Grade 2 1 character no-adjective adverb noun suffix

mae

まえ

Pitch高低アクセント — Tokyo-dialect pitch accent. The number is the drop position: 0 = heiban (no drop), 1 = atamadaka (drops after 1st mora), N = drops after Nth mora. The line above each mora marks high pitch; below, low. まえ[1] atamadaka 頭高

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Meanings

front
before

Explained in simple Japanese

顔(かお)がむいているほうのところ。
あるときより早(はや)いとき。

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Usage examples

一いち週間しゅうかんだけ試ためして、前まえと比くらべることにしたのです。

Ichi shuukan dake tameshite, mae to kuraberu koto ni shita no desu.

They decided to try it for just one week and compare it with how things were before.

小さく直して、大きく変える — トヨタの考え方 · MojiMori（AIオリジナル） · 第2章　改善は、小さな実験

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Adjective forms

Non-past covers present and future. Expand a form to see its plain, polite, affirmative and negative versions, where available. Some forms have multiple variants.

Conjugations are not yet available for this adjective class.