先 – vocab dash

先せん

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Meanings

No-adjective

Noun

1. former; previous; old

Noun

2. first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move

Kanji used

先before (timewise)

Pitch accent

せん

Used in vocabulary

先せん輩ぱい

senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder; older person; predecessor

Noun

先せんに

formerly

Adverb

先せん学がっ期き

last semester

Noun

先せん任にん将しょう校こう

senior officer

Noun

先せん々せん月げつ

month before last

Noun

先せん々せん週しゅう

week before last

Noun

先せん願がん主しゅ義ぎ

first-to-file principle (in patent law); first-to-file system

Noun

先せん発はつ明めい主しゅ義ぎ

first-to-invent principle (in patent law); first-to-invent system

Noun

先せん土ど器き時じ代だい

preceramic period

Noun

先せん縄じょう文もん時じ代だい

pre-Jomon period (i.e. the preceramic period)

Noun

先せん使し用よう権けん

right of prior use; prior use rights; prior user rights

Noun

先せん軍ぐん政せい治じ

Songun; military-first policy of North Korea

Noun

Examples2

その少しょう年ねんは先せん週しゅう末まつ、野や球きゅうのボールで窓まどガラスを割わった。

The boy broke the window with a baseball last weekend.

先せん週しゅう末まつは宇う宙ちゅう時じ代だいについてのレポートを書かかなければならなかった。

I had to write a paper on the Space Age last weekend.