N5 grammar

〜まで

made

Up to, as far as

Formation

まで marks the far end: the stop you ride to, the hour you work until. It answers から, and the two often appear in one sentence. The point it names is included, so 五時まで means five o'clock is still work.

Examples

〜まで is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. You have to walk a long way to get there.

  2. I will be here from Monday to Thursday.

  3. I'll show you to the station.

  4. You'll get there by three o'clock.

  5. He has been here till now.

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.