初めて

Meaning

1. advadj-no
   for the first time
2. adv
   only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; not until ... do you ...
3. n
   first time; (one's) first

Example sentences

• 凄いです！こんな感動的な話は初めてです！まさに美談の中の美談です！

  Amazing! This moving a story is a first for me! It's truly an epic among epics!

• 初めて催眠に入る人の場合、とても浅い催眠状態から、覚醒してもらって、催眠状態と普通に覚醒した状態とを比べてもらうことがよくあります。

  When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.

• 初めてのアレの日は、確かに病気かと二日間ほど誰にも言わず思い悩んだ記憶があります。

  The first 'that time of the month' I seem to remember worrying that I was ill, without telling anybody, for two days.