N5 grammar

〜から(起点)

kara

The starting point

Formation

から marks where something begins: a place you came from, the hour a class starts, the person a letter arrived from. Pair it with まで and you have a range. It is the origin end of the line.

Examples

〜から(起点) is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. School begins on April 8.

  2. From acorns come oaks.

  3. I have got your name from my friend.

  4. What time is dinner served?

  5. I'll follow.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.