JLPT N1 Advanced
土台
Physical foundation, figurative basis, or impossible from the start.
Readings
1 Noun
Foundation / Base
Refers to the physical substructure supporting a building or the fundamental basis upon which skills, arguments, or systems rely.
Example
家 を 建てる 前 に 、 まず 土台 を しっかり 作ります 。
Before building a house, you first make a solid foundation.
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2 Adverb
In the First Place / At All
Functions as an emphatic adverb indicating that a proposition was unreasonable, impossible, or erroneous from the very beginning.
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