JLPT N5 vocabulary

先生meaning and reading

Reading and pitch accent

せんせい3Nakadaka · falls inside

Meaning

  1. teacher, instructor, master
  2. sensei, respectful title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.
  3. intimate or teasing form of address (familiar, jocular)
  4. one's elder (archaic, original meaning)
Illustration of 先生

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは日本語にほんごの先生せんせいです。

    He is a Japanese-language teacher.

  2. 校長こうちょう先生せんせいはお土産みやげを下さいくだました。

    The principal gave me a souvenir.

  3. 先生せんせい、 薬くすりをもう少しすこ下さいくだませんか？

    Doctor, could you please give me a little more medicine?