► 名詞
初 [(2)はつ] meaning: first rank: 2
☆ 世界初の自動運転車 ⇨ The world’s first self-driving car
► 形容動詞
初 [(1)うぶ] meaning: naive rank: 3
☆ あの娘は未だ初だ ⇨ That girl is still very naive, doesn’t know men
More examples:
- 初心忘るべからず ⇨ Don’t lose the beginner’s mindset (when you were humble and eager to learn)
- 彼等は試合の初っ端に得点を許した ⇨ They allowed a score at the very beginning of the game
- 初期設定 ⇨ The initial settings, configurations
- その話は初めて聞いた ⇨ I heard that story for the first time. Never heard of it before
- 子供の頃初めてロックを聴いて痺れたことを覚えている ⇨ I still remember when I was a kid I listened to rock for the first time and got electrified
- ブラウンは最初の内燃エンジンを実用化した ⇨ Brown put the first combustion engine into practice
- 必ずしも最初から順々にやる必要は無い ⇨ You don’t necessarily have to do it in order from the beginning
- 病気になって初めて健康の大切さを実感した ⇨ I truly realized the importance of health only when I became sick
- それは初心者が良くする失敗だ ⇨ That’s a common mistake beginners make
- 彼女は長い下積みの後、初めての映画を監督した ⇨ She finally directed her own movie after many years of apprenticeship
- 彼等は戦争の初期は劣勢だった ⇨ They were losing at the early stage of the war
- 彼女は十六才で初舞台を踏んだ ⇨ She had her first stage performance when she was 16
- 日本代表は初戦に勝って順調な滑り出し ⇨ The team Japan started smoothly by winning the first match
- 私達は最初は苦戦したが、後半に相手の守備を攻略した ⇨ We struggled in the first half, but solved the opponent’s defense in the second half
- 彼の技術は上達して初心者の失敗をすることは無くなった ⇨ His skills have improved and he no longer makes beginner’s mistakes