しょうがっこう
Meanings
Noun
1. primary school; elementary school; grade school
That was exactly the year I started elementary school.
Pitch accent
しょ
うが
っこう
Composed of
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); urine; piss; elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name)
Used in vocabulary (2 in total)
elementary school (in Japan; 1886-1941); primary school
primary school district; elementary school district
Examples (20 in total)
Do you go to an elementary school?
I've loved French cakes since elementary school.
There were really all sorts of things in elementary school.
There used to be an elementary school here.
That primary school has a strong soccer team.
That is a nickname from elementary school days.
I went to elementary school in Nagoya.
The other day I attended a class reunion of my elementary school.
I miss my elementary school teachers.
That was exactly the year I started elementary school.
From kindergarten to elementary school, and of course middle school too, we were all together.
I donated those things, which I had somehow managed to procure, to the elementary school.
I had Berber classes in elementary school.
It is the uniform of the prestigious girls' elementary school she attends.
Tom and Mary have been friends since elementary school.
He is not so much a professor as a school teacher.
But there were also a few friends from elementary school, so I might have felt relieved.
In Japan, attendance at elementary and junior high school is compulsory.
My son who is in the fifth grade has transferred from Shizuoka to an elementary school in Nagoya.
He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.