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First opened Saturday, December 13, 2008

また

また

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and; furthermore

JLPT N5Commonconjunction和語 · Native Japanese

また is from Old Japanese and first cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.

Taken apart

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In a sentence

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What Wiktionary says

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  • “From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *mata. First cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.”

Source: Wiktionary: また (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

和語 Native Japanese
Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.

Also read また

Other words so far with exactly this reading and another spelling, oldest first, with the pitch accent each entry shows: where they differ, the pitch tells the words apart in speech. Only the readings are compared; nothing is claimed about how the words are related.

  • またThis word

    and; furthermore

    No pitch accent shown

  • 股

    thigh, crotch

    また↓ tail-high (odaka)

Also opened on December 13

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