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かつて
Meanings
Adverb
Adjective (の)
Usually written in kana
1. once; before; formerly; ever; former; ex-
2. never yet; never before; first time; still not happened
used with neg. verb
Alt. forms
かつて
97%
かって
1%
嘗かつて
曾かつて
都かつて
Pitch accent
か
つて
Top 1100
Used in: 3877
Used in vocabulary (4 in total)
unprecedented; never seen before
not until now; never yet
not until now; never yet
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Examples (55 in total)
I was young once.
Did you use to live here?
He used to love her.
I did it once.
I once worked in a restaurant.
My dad was once a poor laborer.
At one time they lived in Nagoya.
Tom and Mary used to be married.
Once upon a time, there lived a cruel king.
They had once helped each other.
Germany was once allied with Italy.
She used to play basketball.
Africa was once called the Dark Continent.
The United States was once part of the British Empire.
Kenya used to be a British colony.
Angola was once a Portuguese territory.
Tom was once a drug addict.
Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.
At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
This is the house where she used to live.
She must have once been a real beauty.
Kyoto was an old capital of Japan.
He once owned a lot of land.
I have once been to Europe.
I once lived in Rome.
That island was governed by France at one time.
There used to be a bookstore on that corner.
At one time I lived alone in the mountains.
Once they were very useful.
England was once torn by civil war.
People once believed the world was flat.
There used to be a big cherry tree in the garden.
He was a former university professor and researcher.
It was once believed that tomatoes were poisonous.
That ancient ruin was once a shrine.
The Greeks used to worship several gods.
I once rivaled him for the championship.
I remember seeing him once.
The king once lived in that palace.
There was once a cruel ruler in the country.
The voyage to America used to take many weeks.
Black people in America once said, "Give us freedom".
Pirates once appeared frequently in this area of the sea.
A part of the country was at one time a French settlement.
At one time, I used to go jogging every morning.
He once sailed up the Thames.
Once gold was less valuable than silver in Japan.
There was a great conflict between religion and science.
Never have I seen such a crowd of people.
I used to drink a lot of cola, but now I only drink water.
He contends that primitive life once existed on Mars.
Tom used to dream of playing professional baseball.
This book, which was once a best seller, is now out of print.
He once knew her, but they are no longer friends.
There used to be a great castle on that hill.