はや
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. fast; quick; hasty; brisk
esp. 速い, 疾い, 捷い
2. early (in the day, etc.); premature
esp. 早い
3. (too) soon; not yet; (too) early
esp. 早い
4. easy; simple; quick
esp. 早い
Pitch accent
Top 5700
Used in vocabulary (32 in total)
no sooner ... than ...; hardly ... when ...; as soon as
promptly; quickly
Examples (200 in total)
I hope you get well soon.
It's still a bit early.
Shall we arrive earlier?
Quick. Look outside!
Let's get out of here fast.
Why did you come early?
Act faster!
I don't want to get married too early.
I wish you a quick recovery.
Children grow very quickly.
I wish spring would come soon.
You are very early this morning.
Oh, you are early this morning.
He is quick at figures.
I hope you'll recover quickly.
Kids learn quickly.
Please quickly take a bath!
You should go home early.
I hope that you get better soon.
Get up as early as you possibly can.
Give me the bucket, quick!
I'm going to leave early today.
I'm getting sleepy faster now.
I'm tired, so I'm going to go to bed early.
Rabbits breed quickly.
Settle the argument soon.
I learned French very quickly.
I can't wait to go back to Boston.
Be sure to come home early today.
Why did you come this early?
You have to get up early.
Are you going to bed early tonight?
I wish I had noticed earlier.
I should've gone to bed earlier yesterday.
My mother gets up earlier than I.
I make it a rule to get up early.
If you don't go to bed soon, it'll be morning.
What did you come here so early for?
It's late, so go to bed.
I will probably get up early tomorrow.
Why did she come home early?
Should we get up earlier?
The parcel arrived faster than I thought.
Time has passed very quickly.
I hope you get better soon.
The sun sets earlier in the winter.
We should have left earlier.
Time flies.
The summer vacation ended all too soon.
The meeting ended earlier than usual.
I got up very early today.
I hope the bus will come before long.
I woke up very early this morning.
Back then, I went to bed earlier.
Come home early, Bill.
Quick, run after him.
Today, I was done with my homework early.
It being Sunday, I didn't get up early.
I'm lonely, so I hope you'll come back soon.
The roses are blooming early this year.
I have a headache, so I'm going to bed early tonight.
Thanks to your help, I was able to finish early.
I should have done that sooner.
The cherry blossoms will come out earlier than usual.
Spring has come early this year.
This film develops fast.
The child is learning quickly.
I hope that she will get well soon.
I didn't want to get up early.
You should have come home before.
Can I go home early today?
Be quick! We haven't much time.
We should have come earlier.
You did not need to come so early.
He will have to get up early tomorrow.
I think I'll go home early and cook today.
He promised me to come early.
We look forward to your early reply.
She was in a hurry to go home.
I usually get up very early.
I don't always get up early.
Why didn't you call me earlier?
I was very tired so I went to bed early.
My mother gets up early every morning.
My brother always gets up earlier than I.
The teacher didn't permit me to leave early.
You don't get up as early as your sister.
I've never woken up this early.
I find it hard to get up early on cold mornings.
Children are quick to accustom themselves to new surroundings.
Why did you go to bed so early last night?
In spring, everyone wakes up early.
The sun rises earlier in summer than in winter.
Would you mind coming earlier next time?
I will sleep early so my cold goes away sooner.
Please come as soon as possible.
I got up an hour earlier than usual this morning.
Ellen was so tired that she went to bed early.
It becomes dark much earlier in winter.
I feel like going to bed early tonight.
All the students go home early on Saturday.
If you get up early tomorrow, you can see the rising sun.
I hope your mother will regain her health soon.
John had awoken much earlier than usual.
If we begin early, we can finish by lunch.
It was wise of her to leave home early.
The meeting will be held next week at the earliest.
I'm amazed at his rapid progress in English.
"Please leave for work earlier than usual." "Understood."
In hot weather, water evaporates quickly.
He gets up as early as five every morning.
Let's eat the ice cream now, since it melts quickly.
I reached Nagoya early this morning.
The subway is cheap, fast, and very convenient.
We agreed to start early.
Musical talent usually blooms at an early age.
Do you think the rainy season will set in early this year?
We'll have to set out early tomorrow morning.
I want to learn how to use my new digital camera right away.
It may be faster if you apply online.
I can't wait to go to Australia to see Tom.
He is quick to adapt to new circumstances.
I know it's early, but let's go home.
I was able to finish the work earlier than I had expected.
Why did you come here so early?
Mother gets up earlier than anybody else in my family.
I'm not accustomed to getting up so early.
You should have warned him sooner.
Go early in order to get a good seat.
If you had left home a little earlier you would have been in time.
He instructed me to go to bed early.
If only the doctor had come a little sooner.
The sooner you return, the happier your father will be.
We didn't need to eat breakfast so early.
We ought to have talked it over much earlier.
I look forward to receiving your reply as soon as possible.
Is it too early to order from the lunch menu?
We advised them to start early.
I advised him to start earlier.
Flying is the quickest way to travel.
He made an effort to get to the station early.
I had a slight headache, so I went to bed early.
He got up early in order to attend the meeting.
Let's let the workers go home early today.
I ought to have made a hotel reservation earlier.
We agreed to start early the next morning.
Every morning she gets up early because she has to cook.
Let's go to the theater early so that we can get good seats.
My mother was so tired that she went to bed early.
Since there were no customers, we closed the shop early.
We went to bed early in order to get up at dawn.
This survey is too long to finish quickly.
We got up early so that we could see the sunrise.
Children usually pick up foreign languages very quickly.
The sooner you give up smoking, the greater the benefits.
If you had come a little earlier, you could have met her.
Had I arrived earlier, I could have seen Kelly.
We went early to make sure we could get seats.
Children must go to bed early without watching television.
There's a huge spider in the room! Quick, exterminate it!
"If you don't hurry, the bank will close." "Ah, I have decided to go to the bank tomorrow."
The reason why he came so early is not evident.
Thanks to his advice, we could finish it earlier than we had expected.
You should call your mother as soon as possible.
She should be there now because she left early.
I was surprised because the concert ended all too soon.
My whole body is sticky with sweat. I want to take a bath as quickly as possible in order to feel refreshed.
Is there any good way to memorise our lines quickly?
You should eat more, or you won't get well soon.
He left early; otherwise he could not have caught the train.
Some college teachers come to class late and leave early.
I left home early to get a good seat.
I sincerely hope that you will soon recover from your illness.
I'm getting sleepy. I should've gone to bed earlier last night.
If you had left earlier, you would have caught the train.
He comes to school earlier than any other student in the class.
In any case, you have to leave early, whether you like it or not.
Exhausted from a day's work, he went to bed much earlier than usual.
The prime minister hinted at the possibility of an early election.
I would sooner die than get up early every morning.
With his father's help, he would have succeeded in this task sooner.
I have to get up early tomorrow morning, so I plan to go to bed early tonight.
Tony can run the fastest in our class.
On a rainy morning he left his house early so as to be in time for school.
If I were you, I'd go to bed early tonight.
If for some reason they come early, please tell them to wait.
"Um, was Tom already here?" "Yeah, he arrived a bit too early."
The years pass by quickly.
The bus was two minutes early.
Mom, hurry up! Everyone's waiting.
Sound travels very quickly.
Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning.
My clock is two minutes fast.
These flowers bloom earlier than the others do.
You ought to have come here earlier.
It is premature to discuss it now.
Yumi got up early to listen to the English program.
The meeting can't be held until Monday at earliest.
Because of the typhoon, my parents ended their trip one day early.
Tired from the hard work, he went to bed earlier than usual.