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Zach

こんなこと初めてだ。

Sentence Analyzer

こんな こと 初めて

English Translation

This is the first time.

Furigana

こんなこと(はじ)めてだ。

Romanji

Konna koto hajimete da.

Words

こんな (こんな)
such (about something or someone close to the speaker (including the speaker), or about ideas expressed by the speaker); like this
(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
初めて (はじめて)
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...
()
be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative

Kanji

Readings: ショ、 はじ.め、 はじ.めて、 はつ、 はつ-、 うい-、 -そ.める、 -ぞ.め
Meanings: first time, beginning