生せい前ぜん

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

1

Refers to the time when a now-deceased person was still alive. Often used adverbially as 生前、 or attributively as 生前の.

店みせ

に

来き

て

い

た

。

While he was alive, my grandfather often came to this shop.

生せい前ぜんの彼かの女じょを知しる人ひとは少すくない。

Few people knew her when she was alive.

〈人ひと〉は生せい前ぜん、〈事こと〉と言いっていたwhen (person) was alive, they used to say ...
祖そ父ふは生せい前ぜん、いつも家か族ぞくが一いち番ばん大たい切せつだと言いっていた。
While he was alive, my grandfather always used to say that family was most important.
生せい前ぜんの〈人ひと〉(person) when they were alive
生せい前ぜんの彼かの女じょの写しゃ真しんがアルバムに残のこっている。
Photos of her from when she was alive are still in the album.

存ぞん命めい中ちゅう
存命中 also means 'while alive' but stresses that the person is/was actually living, whereas 生前 is used specifically when talking about someone who has since died.
生しょう涯がいN1
生涯 refers to a person's entire lifespan as a whole, while 生前 focuses narrowly on the period before their death, often used when recalling a deceased person.
在ありし日ひ
生前 is a neutral, often legal or biographical term for 'during one's lifetime', while 在りし日 has a poetic, elegiac tone when speaking of the deceased.

死し後ご
死後 means 'after death', the direct opposite of 生前 'while alive'.
没ぼつ後ご
生前 means 'during one's lifetime, before death,' the direct opposite of 没後 'after death.'

A Sino-Japanese compound of 生, associated with life or being alive, and 前, 'before'; literally, the period before death, i.e. during one's lifetime.

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生せい

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断だん

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