先生

Kana: せんせい

teacher

Example sentence

あの人は学校の先生です。

あのひとはがっこうのせんせいです。

That person is a school teacher.

What 先生 means

先生 (せんせい) is a Japanese word meaning “teacher”. It belongs to the People & Family topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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