Japanese word
先生
せんせい
In your course · Chapter 4
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- archaic, honorific
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 270 in the course corpus
Meanings
- teacher
- instructor
- master
- sensei
- title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.
- intimate or teasing form of address
- one's elder
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 先
- On reading:
- セン
- Kun reading:
- さき、ま.ず
- Meanings:
- before, ahead, previous, future, precedence
- 生
- On reading:
- ショウ、セイ
- Kun reading:
- -う、い.かす、い.きる、い.ける、う.まれ、う.まれる、う.む、うま.れる、うまれ、お.う、き、な.す、な.る、なま、なま-、は.える、は.やす、む.す
- Meanings:
- life, genuine, birth
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Examples
それは先生の時計ですか
Is that the teacher's watch?
先生、明日行きますか
Are you going tomorrow, teacher?
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