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No. 2,179 in Japanese

正午

Noon.

In a sentence

  • 正午に食事をしようと思っています。

    I am thinking of having a meal at noon.

    Here, 正午 is used to denote the specific time of day—noon—and serves as the temporal indicator for the action.

  • 電車は正午に到着します。

    The train will arrive at noon.

    In this instance, 正午 specifies the exact expected time of arrival of the train, providing precise temporal information.

  • 正午を過ぎて天気が悪くなった。

    It became gloomy and the weather turned worse after noon.

    Here, 正午 is used to mark the boundary of a time period, reflecting the point in time after which something occurred.

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