No. 208 in Indonesian
sebelumnya
"Previously" or "before."
In a sentence
Saya sudah menyiapkan buku sebelumnya.
I had already prepared the book beforehand.
In this sentence, 'sebelumnya' indicates an action that took place prior to another event, emphasizing a temporal sequence.
Dia bertanya apakah saya sudah pernah ke sana sebelumnya.
He asked if I had ever been there before.
Here, 'sebelumnya' is used to refer to an antecedent time, posing a kind of retrospection.
Sebagaimana yang disebutkan sebelumnya, topik ini sangat relevan.
As mentioned earlier, this topic is very relevant.
In this context, 'sebelumnya' refers to an earlier point within a discourse or text.
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