N21552/1725

お先さきに

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Meanings

before, previously
ahead
pardon me for leaving (before you)

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Example sentences

お先さきに失礼しつれいします。

Pardon me for leaving before you. (I'll excuse myself first.)

お先さきに帰かえってもいいですか？

Is it alright if I head home before you?

みなさんよりお先さきに食事しょくじをいただきます。

I will have my meal before everyone else.

会議かいぎが終おわったので、お先さきに失礼しつれいさせていただきます。

Since the meeting has ended, please allow me to excuse myself before the rest of you.

部長ぶちょうより先さきに退社たいしゃするのは失礼しつれいかと思おもいましたが、急用きゅうようがあったためお先さきに失礼しつれいしました。

I thought it might be rude to leave the office before the department head, but since I had an urgent matter, I excused myself first.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)