Illustration: Inside a Japanese elementary classroom, the class teacher crouches beside a pupil to fix a twisted schoolbag strap before everyone goes home.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

担たん任にん

tannin

homeroom teacher

Example sentences

  1. 中学ちゅうがくのときの担任たんにんにそっくりだ。

    She looks just like my junior high school homeroom teacher.

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  2. ジャクソン先生せんせいは、私わたしの担任たんにんです。

    Mr. Jackson is my homeroom teacher.

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  3. 担任たんにんの先生せんせいは私わたしのお母かあさんと同おなじ年としだ。

    My homeroom teacher is the same age as my mother.

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Kanji in 担任

  • 担shouldering; carryOnタンKunかつぐ・になう
  • 任responsibility; entrustOnニンKunまかせる・まかす

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