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かつ

rarely used kanji formusually written using kana aloneadverbnoun taking the genitive case particle のadjective (generic)

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Meanings

  • once, before, formerly, ever, former, ex-
  • never yet, never before, first time, still not happened

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Example sentences

かつてかれはこのくに大統領だいとうりょうだった。

He was once the president of this country.

そのような失敗しっぱいかつてなかったことだ。

Such a failure has never happened before.

かつてここにはうつくしいもりひろがっていた。

There was once a beautiful forest spreading across this place.

彼女かのじょかつて恋人こいびと再会さいかいたした。

She had a reunion with her former lover.

これほどの規模きぼ災害さいがいかつて経験けいけんしたことがない。

A disaster of this scale is something we have never experienced before.