Illustration: In a Japanese university teaching laboratory, a young adult student peers into a microscope while an instructor demonstrates an adjustment beside them. Several classmates work at matching benches, with backpacks under their stools and exercise notebooks lying open to blank pages.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

学がく生せい

gakusei

student

Often used for university students. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 学生がくせいの半数はんすうが休やすんでいた。

    Half the students were absent.

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  2. 彼かれは学生がくせいです。

    He is a student.

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  3. 私わたしは学生がくせいです。

    I am a student.

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Kanji in 学生

  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ
  • 生life; genuineOnセイ・ショウKunいきる・いかす・いける

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