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+Key Sentence

Noun
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1 (In my family, starting with my father, all of us like sports.) I

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(Starting with sushi, Cathy eats any Japanese cuisine.)
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(This year, starting with Osaka, the rainy season was short in all parts
of the Kansai district.)
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(At this company, starting with the president, all the employees eat
lunch in the same cafeteria.)
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(Not only the police but also the nearby residents showed a strong
interest in this incident.)

1. N o hajime to shite literally means 'by making N the beginning (of s.t.),'
an idea very similar to the English phrase 'starting with.'
2. N o hajime is an abbreviative version of N o hajime to shite.
3. In conversational Japanese N o hajime (to shite) is not used; instead,
dake de (wa) naku - (mo) is used.
(+ dake de (wa) naku - (mo) (DBJG: 97-100))