夕ゆうべ

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べ

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Meanings

1

poetical term

Poetic or literary term for evening; in everyday speech 夕方 or 晩 are more common.

〈事こと〉の夕ゆうべan evening devoted to ~ (a themed evening event)
詩しの夕ゆうべが開ひらかれた。
A poetry evening was held.
夕ゆうべは〈事こと〉last night, ~ happened
夕ゆうべは雨あめが降ふった。
It rained last night.
夕ゆうべから〈事こと〉since last night, ~
夕ゆうべから熱ねつがある。
I've had a fever since last night.

夕ゆう方がたN5sense 1
夕方 is the everyday, neutral word for 'evening', while 夕べ is a more literary or poetic term for the same time of day.
昨さく夜やN1sense 3
昨夜 is the more common way to write 'last night', while 夕べ (also read ゆうべ) is the softer, more colloquial or literary form of the same meaning.
晩ばんN5sense 1
晩 is a common, everyday word for 'evening/night', whereas 夕べ carries a poetic or literary flavor.

朝あした sense 1
朝 (あした) is the poetic word for 'morning', forming a classic pair with the poetic 夕べ for 'evening'.

前ぜん夜やN1
夕べ casually means 'last night' relative to now, whereas 前夜 frames a specific night in relation to a following day or event.
夕ゆう方がたN5
夕べ can mean either 'yesterday evening' or a poetic word for evening, so it is easily confused with the plain time-of-day word 夕方.
夕ゆう
夕べ usually means 'last night/yesterday evening' as a specific past time, while 夕 refers generally to the evening period without indicating a particular day.

The modern form continues classical ゆふべ, “evening,” later also “the preceding evening.” Its deeper formation is uncertain.

N1

Written 夕べ, the same-sounding word usually means 'evening' as a time of day, whereas 昨夜（ゆうべ）specifically means 'last night'.