ショウガッコウ
Meanings
Noun
1. primary school; elementary school; grade school
Pitch accent
ショ
ウガ
ッコウ
Composed of
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people 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 (13 in total)
Do you go to an elementary school?
I've loved French cakes since elementary school.
There used to be an elementary school here.
That primary school has a strong soccer team.
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.
I had Berber classes in elementary school.
Tom and Mary have been friends since elementary school.
He is not so much a professor as a school teacher.
In Japan, attendance at elementary and junior high school is compulsory.
He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.
My son who is in the fifth grade has transferred from Shizuoka to an elementary school in Nagoya.