kindergarten
意味
- 幼稚園
例文
Tom and I've been friends since kindergarten.
トムとは幼稚園の時からの友達なんだ。
I learned that when I was in kindergarten.
それ習ったの、私が幼稚園の時だよ。
Now, now, eat quickly, you have to go to kindergarten.
ほらほら、早く食べて幼稚園行かなきゃ。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Unadapted borrowing from German Kindergarten (“kindergarten”, literally “garden of children”), coined by German pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel in 1840.