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
Kanji used
fast
Pitch accent
Top 1200
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
quick-witted; bright; rapid thinking
quick-witted; bright; rapid thinking
being quick-eared; having sharp ears; being first to know about something
Examples (141 in total)
You talk fast.
I want to become faster.
Don't walk so fast.
Come here quickly.
I am tired from running fast.
I talk fast.
"Fast" is the opposite of "slow."
Don't speak so fast.
Walk as fast as possible.
The car is running fast.
My heart is beating fast.
Your pulse is a little fast.
He is quick at addition.
He runs very fast.
How fast you walk!
Please don't speak so fast.
That student is very fast at running, isn't he?
The car doesn't run fast.
That horse runs fast.
I can't run as fast as you.
Can you run fast?
Boys run fast.
Paper burns quickly.
A car is faster than a bicycle.
Kate speaks English very fast.
I felt my heart beating rapidly.
I can run as fast.
He drives very fast.
The progress of civilization is very rapid.
Bill can run faster than Bob.
My beard grows quickly.
Don't walk so fast. I can't keep up with you.
Which is quicker, a taxi or the subway?
How fast the new Shinkansen goes!
His pace quickened.
Tom writes very fast.
Tony is a fast runner.
I could swim faster when I was young.
Beijing is changing with great speed.
The falcon is a very fast bird.
The Tsubasa is a very fast train.
Those jets were faster than lightning.
I feel like it's gotten faster after the update.
This browser is fast and easy to use.
The cheetah is the fastest animal.
Naoko is a fast runner.
I can't walk fast, but I can walk for a long time.
I want to be able to read books faster.
No matter how fast you ran, you cannot win.
He ran faster than his brother did.
That dog runs very fast.
Time goes very swiftly.
My brother speaks very fast.
Running so fast is impossible for me.
The tree grows very quickly.
Bill can run the fastest in his class.
Our teacher sometimes speaks quickly.
That is the fastest train in the world.
He is slow to decide, but he is quick to act.
Mike ran very fast yesterday.
My uncle's car is faster than mine.
How fast does this train run?
I have a dog that can run fast.
He is too fat to run fast.
Not every horse can run fast.
Running as fast as I could, I was able to catch up with my friend.
It's the fastest railroad in the world.
A computer can calculate very rapidly.
John is too fat to run fast.
Ken runs faster than you.
Mary swims as fast as Jack.
He could run fast when he was young.
I cannot run as fast as Jim.
I find it difficult to understand French when it's spoken quickly.
Run fast, or you will be late for school.
He ran so fast that he was out of breath.
He made up for lost time by running fast.
Which goes faster, a ship or a train?
Run fast, and you will catch the train.
Superman flies as fast as a rocket.
Who runs faster, Yumi or Keiko?
The speed of the spread of AIDS is horrifyingly fast.
Jet planes fly much faster than propeller planes.
Kumiko runs as fast as Tom.
I ran as fast as I could, but I missed the bus.
Light travels much faster than sound.
She spoke too quickly, so I couldn't understand.
He ran the fastest of all.
It was surprising to see how fast the child grew up.
The teacher spoke too fast for us to understand.
A strong wind is blowing and I can't walk fast.
No matter how fast you may walk, you can't catch up with him.
Time passes quickly when we're doing something we like.
Who runs the fastest of the three?
He walked as fast as he could to catch up with her.
He ran fast so as to catch the bus.
How fast the train is running!
I can't run as fast as he can.
Our car was fast and soon got ahead of the other cars.
My grandmother walks faster than me, and plays tennis better than I do.
The speed of an airplane is much greater than that of a helicopter.
The new airplane flies at twice the speed of sound.
Walk faster, or you'll miss the train.
It is impossible to catch up with the fast runner.
Generally speaking, boys can run faster than girls.
I type faster than Tom, but slower than Mary.
He walked so fast that she couldn't keep up with him.
No one in the class runs as fast as he does.
How do you know that light travels faster than sound?
I can run the fastest of the three.
In general, men run faster than women.
Generally speaking, men can run faster than women can.
He ignored the speed limit and drove very fast.
He could swim fast enough to pass the test.
I still can’t understand fast-paced Japanese dialogue yet.
The quickest means of travel is by plane.
The doctor thought the patient's pulse was rather rapid.
The brightest flame burns quickest.
Tom asked me why I could swim so fast.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
The new secretary types faster than the old one.
Though Jane is not a good runner, she can swim very fast.
Who runs faster, Judy or Tony?
Mr Johnson ran fastest of the three.
My boss has the ability to read books very fast.
He ran toward me as fast as he could.
This bird's large wings enable it to fly very fast.
I couldn't run fast enough to keep up with them.
The Nozomi is the fastest of all the trains in Japan.
Dave is the fastest swimmer of all my classmates.
The faster we rub our hands together, the warmer they get.
She can swim as fast as her brother.
Can a two-year-old boy run that fast?
This river flows too fast to swim in.
A fast walker can walk six kilometers in an hour.
The earth moves at the rate of 68,130 miles an hour.
The fastest runner can't run 100 meters in 9 seconds.
The new computer is ten times as fast as the old one.
The airplane flies at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour.
The river is flowing very fast after last night's rain.
She ran as fast as she could to catch up with the others.