Preceding all others in time or space or degree
English: first
pertamaBahasa Indonesia
first, foremost, number one, 1st, ab initio
Very common
#106 of the corpus · 1,127.5 per million words · 4,814,957 occurrences
Adjective
Received directly from a source
English: firsthand
Bahasa: langsung
Indicating the beginning unit in a series
English: first, 1st
3 more adjective senses
Ranking above all others
English: first, foremost, world-class
Bahasa: tua, terutama, terpenting, mula-mula, sulung
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Serving to begin
English: beginning(a), first
Bahasa: mula-mula
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Highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
English: first
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Noun
The first element in a countable series
English: first, number one, number 1
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The first or highest in an ordering or series
English: first, number one
Bahasa: dahulu
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The first of two or the first mentioned of two
English: former
Bahasa: awal
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Adverb
Before anything else
English: first, firstly, foremost, first of all, first off
Bahasa: terdahulu, mula-mula, pertama-tama
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At the beginning
English: initially, ab initio
Bahasa: mula-mula
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The initial time
English: first, for the first time
Bahasa: dahulu, terdahulu, pertama-tama
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2 more adverb senses
Prominently forward
English: foremost, first
Bahasa: dahulu, terdahulu, mula-mula, pertama-tama
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Before another in time, space, or importance
English: first
Bahasa: mula-mula
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