How do you sign “Early” in ASL?
EARLY: EARLY in American Sign Language (ASL) describes beating the clock. Watch the video and animation below to see it signed.


Where does EARLY come up in conversation?
EARLY rises in flight times, morning-person bragging, and apologies that start with sorry I am. It pairs off against LATE in one of the tidiest opposite pairs in the time vocabulary.
It appears in Lesson 40 of Book 2.
📖 EARLY is taught in Lesson 40 of ASLI 2: Building Conversations — Book 2 of the 216-Day Challenge →

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