既に

すでに
already, too late

Reading

Readingすでに
N3 VocabJLPT N3adv.
Kanji既

Meanings

  1. already
  2. too late
  1. previouslyadv.kana
  2. before
  3. undeniablyadv.kana
  4. unmistakably
  5. in the first place

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

個物は本能的適応的に働くのではなくして、既に表現的形成的でなければならない。
こぶつはほんのうてきてきおうてきにはたらくのではなくして、すでにひょうげんてきけいせいてきでなければならない。The particular thing doesn't work instinctively and adaptively, but must already be expressive and formative.
現在において過去は既に過ぎ去ったものでありながら未だ過ぎ去らざるものであり、
げんざいにおいてかこはすでにすぎさったものでありながらいまだすぎさらざるものであり、The past is in the present something that has already passed, yet something that hasn't yet passed.
経験は試みることとしてそこに既に自律的な知性が参加している。
けいけんはこころみることとしてそこにすでにじりつてきなちせいがさんかしている。Experience already has autonomous intelligence participating in it as an attempt.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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