先祖
Meanings
Noun
1. ancestor; forefather; foremother
Kanji used
Pitch accent
せんぞ
Used in vocabulary
先祖代々
ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation
No-adjective
Examples7
ある
They were erected to commemorate a certain event or to tell an ancestral legend.
我々
Our ancestors knew how to read the stars.
この
We visit the tombs of our ancestors on this day.
彼の
His ancestors went there from Ireland.
彼らの
Their clothes are quite like those of our ancestors.
うちの
Our family has some distinguished ancestors.