昨日
きのう
hepburn kinou
yesterday
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
昨yesterday
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日sun
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Examples
- 昨日映画を見ました。I watched a movie yesterday.
- 昨日は雨でした。It rained yesterday.
Collocations
昨日の夜昨日から昨日まで昨日の朝昨日も
Mnemonic
昨日 kinou — jukujikun. Formal/written variant: さくじつ sakujitsu. Memorize as a set with ashita (tomorrow) and kyou (today) — these three cover most everyday time-of-day vocabulary.
Quick check
What is the correct order: yesterday → today → tomorrow in Japanese?