はじ
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, る, intransitive)
1. to begin; to start; to commence
2. to happen (again); to begin (anew)
3. to date (from); to originate (in)
Kanji used
begin
Pitch accent
じまる
Top 400
Used in vocabulary (1 in total)
a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Examples (134 in total)
It's starting now.
When does it start?
I've started bleeding.
The countdown has begun.
My labor has started.
School begins tomorrow.
Yes, it has already started.
War suddenly broke out.
School begins in the spring.
When do the examinations start?
Education begins at home.
What time does the play start?
Tests start next week.
School starts at nine.
The meeting begins at three.
Charity begins at home.
When will the show begin?
Buddhism originated in India.
The meeting started at ten.
What time did the concert start?
The summer vacation begins in July.
Construction began in October.
How soon will the meeting begin?
The story begins far in the past.
The opera starts at seven.
When does the show start?
The witch hunt has begun.
The concert is about to start.
The New Year came in with a light fall of snow.
I wonder when the Civil War started.
Democracy originated in Ancient Greece.
The rainy season begins in June.
Large-scale road construction began.
The dry season will set in soon.
Peace talks will begin next week.
Your future begins today.
"Is class starting yet?" "Yes, it's starting."
The match is starting just now.
The party is just beginning.
I start every morning with a coffee.
The war began three years later.
When will the Japanese classes start?
When will the Japanese course start?
The custom originated in China.
When the whistle blows, the race will start.
I can't start my day without seeing the sunrise.
What time will the band start playing?
Early in the morning, the tank battle began.
The peace talks begin this week.
The ceremony began with his speech.
Summer vacation begins next Monday.
School starts in September in Europe.
This custom began in the Edo Period.
The baseball season opens before long.
Morning worship begins at eleven o'clock.
The party opened with his speech.
Classes begin next Tuesday.
Hurry up! The concert is starting.
The Cold War began after the Second World War.
The play began exactly on time.
The show will be starting soon.
The rainy season sets in about the end of June.
They were eager for the game to begin.
The concert began with a piano solo.
My new lifestyle starts over again tomorrow.
The movie will have started before we get there.
We always begin with the hardest problems.
No one remembers when it started.
When we arrived, the lecture had already begun.
Mary fell asleep just as the movie started.
The play begins at six this evening.
Work doesn't always begin at nine.
War broke out when the treaty was ignored.
This style of costume originated in Paris.
Tom fell asleep just as the movie started.
I've been very busy since the new term started.
Export of the product will start soon.
Do you think the rainy season will set in early this year?
The audience could hardly wait for the concert to begin.
School begins on April the tenth.
We were impatient for the concert to begin.
Plant these seeds before summer sets in.
As soon as the game started, it began to rain.
The invention of the transistor introduced a new era.
Today I started a new Esperanto course.
Montgomery was where it all began.
Science begins when you ask why and how.
The game starts at two tomorrow afternoon.
Early education for children usually begins at home.
When the excitement died down, the discussion resumed.
Life begins when you pay taxes.
We waited in the movie theater for the film to start.
In Tokyo, the cold season starts in the middle of November.
In England spring really begins with the first of May.
When we arrived at the stadium, the game had already started.
His book begins with a tale of country life.
Tom was in Boston when the war began.
Many improvements have been made since this century began.
Discussion resumed after a short interruption.
The recovery of Japan's economy, which has been in a recession for some time, is finally under way.
According to the weather forecast, the rainy season will set in next week.
She had to part with her family when the war began.
Our conversation opened, as usual, upon the weather.
It all began a year ago when he returned home.
Napoleon's army now advanced and a great battle begins.
After being exposed to a large amount of radiation, vomiting and diarrhea will start quickly.
When the war began, Tom was a little kid.
The history of glass is extremely long, and begins in the ancient Orient.
The dance had already started when I got there.
They are anticipating trouble when the construction starts.
As the recession set in, temporary employees were laid off one after another.
School begins the day after tomorrow.
School starts in April.
Sentences begin with a capital letter.
The lecture started on schedule.
The next year, World War I broke out.
The 1990s began with the Gulf War.
The Second World War began in 1939.
The 1990s began with the Gulf incident.
Mayu fell asleep the moment the movie started.
2001 is the year when the 21st century begins.
Modern philosophy has its beginnings in the 19th century.
Tennis began in France in the thirteenth century.
The meeting will start at four o'clock sharp.
The place where a river starts is its source.
School begins on the April 8th.
Production of this automobile started in 1980.
The class begins at 8:30.
The English lesson started at 8:30.
Our university usually starts on April 1st.
Our meetings rarely start on time.
We had lived there for ten years when the war broke out.
I arrived at the stadium at 4:00 p.m., but the game had already started.
People buy these tickets many months before the tournament starts.