お正月
おしょうがつ
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
Meanings
Noun
New Year (esp. first three days)Polite- first month of the year; JanuaryPolite
Example sentences
お正月は何するの?
What are you doing for New Year?
もうすぐお正月です。
It will soon be New Year.
お正月は何してるの?
What are you doing for New Years?
もうすぐお正月ですね。
New Year's Day is close at hand.
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What are you planning to do for the New Year vacation?
More examples (8)
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This year New Year's Day falls on Sunday.
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Isn't that the friend I danced with on New Year's?
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Everybody is very busy getting ready for the New Year.
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I am becoming a working adult in January.
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I drank ceremonial sake with gold leaf in it at the new year.
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There is a custom of eating rice cakes for New Year's in Japan.
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I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
彼は一年近くもアルコール類を断っていたが、お正月の頃に禁を破ってまた元に戻ってしまった。
He had been dry for almost a year, but he fell off the wagon around New Year's Day.