早就

zǎojiù

adverb HSK 2 #1,890

Meanings

1 long ago; already

Characters

early; long ago

Examples

我早就知道了。

Wǒ zǎojiù zhīdao le.

I already knew (long ago).

他早就走了。

Tā zǎojiù zǒu le.

He left a long time ago.

这件事我早就听说了。

Zhè jiàn shì wǒ zǎojiù tīngshuō le.

I heard about this a long time ago.

Tips

grammar

早就 emphasizes that something happened much earlier than expected. It adds an impatient or emphatic tone, like 'ages ago' in English.

Stroke Order

早 zǎo

就 jiù