already
要点もう、すでに
意味
- 《肯定文で》もう,すでに
- 《驚き・意外の意を表して》《疑問文で》もう,早くも;《否定文で》まさか
例文
I thought that he had already finished the work.
彼はすでに仕事を終えてしまったと私は思った。
Have you already decided what to do next Sunday?
今度の日曜日に何をするかもう決めましたか。
The student has already solved all the problems.
その生徒はもうすべての問題を解いてしまった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English alredy (“fully; already”), equivalent to al- (“all, completely”) + ready. Cognate with West Frisian alreeds (“already”), Dutch alreeds (“already”), Afrikaans alreeds (“already”), Middle Low German alreide, alreids ("already"; whence modern German Low German alreeds (“already”)), Danish allerede (“already”), Swedish allaredan (“already”), Norwegian Nynorsk allereie (“already”). More at all, ready. The use as an intensifier in American English is a semantic loan from Yiddish שוין (shoyn), attested from 1903. In Singapore English, the use of already as a marker of action completion and change of state is analogous to Hokkien 了 (liáu), Teochew 了 (liao²) and Mandarin 了 (le).