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I found a phrase that contains 昼間から but I am not sure if I understand the から
function correctly:

> またこの子は **昼間から** ゴロゴロして

I believe that it should roughly translate to "This child is being lazy all
day again".

But when I tried to understand all the parts of this sentence, I can't make
anything else out of 昼間から other than "from daytime", and it doesn't make a lot
of sense to me.

What am I missing?

Edit: Is this meaning/use documented anywhere?
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grammar translation particles particle-から
What is the function of から in 昼間から?
They assume that children should not start gaming, reading comics or doing
other non-productive things like `ゴロゴロする` **from** the morning, noon or any
time in the daytime.

[Edit]

After thinking for hours, I realized it's not right to translate `から` into
'from' here. The feeling or sense of `から` seems different than 'from'. It's
interesting to know that " _from_ the daytime" doesn't sound right in English.

`から` comes with anything like morning, noon, daytime, night, today, yesterday
and so on. The thing is, you can say `Xから` even if it _is_ time of X. So
something like " _from_ the daytime = in the daytime" happens in Japanese.

In your sentence, the kid started `ゴロゴロする` in the daytime AND the speaker is
also saying that in the daytime. Also, yes, `から` can make connotations like
"from such a time".

Other examples:

> [朝から]{あさから}[勉強]{べんきょう}するの？
>
>   1. [said in the morning] Are you going to study (start studying) now?
>   2. Do you study (start studying) in the morning?
>   3. Will you study (start studying) in the morning?
>

> [朝]{あさ} **に** [勉強]{べんきょう}するの？
>
>   1. Do you study in the morning?
>   2. Will you study in the morning?
>
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