What does 最近 mean in Japanese?

最近 (さいきん) means "recently; lately" in Japanese.

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Q: How do you use 最近 in a sentence?

最近、仕事が忙しいです。 (さいきん、しごとがいそがしいです。) — Work has been busy recently.

Kana: さいきん

recently; lately

Example sentence

最近、仕事が忙しいです。

さいきん、しごとがいそがしいです。

Work has been busy recently.

What 最近 means

最近 (さいきん) is a Japanese word meaning “recently; lately”. It belongs to the Grammar & Phrases topic and appears at Level 2 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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Level 2

ているところているところ in the middle of (doing) 必ずかならず must; be sure to やっとやっと only then; not until それにそれに moreover についてについて about; regarding それともそれとも or (in questions) ほとんどほとんど almost もしもし if けれどけれど although ためにために in order to; for the sake of 似るにる to resemble; be like 先にさきに first; ahead

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