以前に一度会ったことがあった。

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以前に一度会ったことがあった。

English Translation

I had met him once before.

Furigana

以前(いぜん)に一度(いちど)会(あ)ったことがあった。

Romanji

Izen ni ichido atta koto ga atta.

Words

以前 (いぜん)

ago; since; before; previous

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

一度 (いちど、ひとたび)

once; one time; on one occasion; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone; one musical interval

会う (あう)

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about