午ご前ぜん

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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

Refers to the period from midnight to noon, or used adverbially to mean 'in the morning' or 'a.m.'.

午ご前ぜん〈数かず〉時じat ... a.m.
午ご前ぜん7時じに起おきます。
I get up at 7 a.m.
午ご前ぜん中ちゅうに〈動どう詞し〉to do something sometime during the morning
午ご前ぜん中ちゅうに会かい議ぎを終おわらせたい。
I want to finish the meeting sometime during the morning.

朝あさN5
午前 is the formal term used in schedules and time expressions for the whole morning up to noon, while 朝 is the everyday word for the early part of the day.
午ご前ぜん中ちゅう
午前 is the formal term for 'a.m.' or the morning hours as a point in time, while 午前中 stresses the whole span of time from morning until noon.
昼ひる前まえN1
午前 is the formal, general term for 'a.m.' or morning, while 昼前 more casually points to the specific late-morning stretch right before noon.

午ご後ごN5
午前 refers to the morning period before noon, while 午後 refers to the afternoon period after noon.
アフタヌーン
午前 means 'morning/before noon', the direct opposite of アフタヌーン's 'afternoon' sense.
ＰＭ
午前 (AM) is the direct opposite of ＰＭ, marking the morning-to-noon period instead of noon-to-midnight.

Compound of 午 (go, 'noon') and 前 (zen, 'before'), literally 'before noon'.