師し事じ

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師事する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	師し事じする	師し事じしない
Polite	師し事じします	師し事じしません
Past polite	師し事じしました	師し事じしませんでした
Past	師し事じした	師し事じしなかった
Te-form	師し事じして	師し事じしないで
Desire	師し事じしたい	師し事じしたくない
Potential	師し事じできる	師し事じできない
Passive	師し事じされる	師し事じされない
Causative	師し事じさせる	師し事じさせない
Causative passive	師し事じさせられる	師し事じさせられない
Volitional	師し事じしよう
Polite volitional	師し事じしましょう
Imperative	師し事じしろ	師し事じするな
Conditional	師し事じすれば	師し事じしなければ
Tara conditional	師し事じしたら	師し事じしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

study under; be a pupil of; apprentice oneself to

Most often used as に師事する: to learn from someone as a teacher, master, or mentor. It implies more than simply admiring someone; the person is treated as one’s instructor or model.

彼かれは大だい学がく時じ代だいに有ゆう名めいな作さっ曲きょく家かに師し事じした。
He studied under a famous composer during his university days.
十じゅう年ねん間かん、茶さ道どうの先せん生せいに師し事じしている。
She has been studying under a tea ceremony teacher for ten years.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉に師し事じするto study under someone / apprentice oneself to someone
彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、有ゆう名めいな画が家かに師し事じした。
In his youth, he studied under a famous painter.

Kanji

師expert, teacher, master
事matter, thing, fact

Related words

教おそわるN3
教わる is a common, everyday verb for being taught something, while 師事する is formal and implies a sustained teacher-disciple or mentor relationship.
弟で子し入いりN1
弟子入り emphasizes formally becoming someone's disciple or apprentice, often joining their household or school, whereas 師事 focuses on learning from them as a mentor.
尊そん敬けいN3
尊敬 means respect or admiration in general, while 師事 specifically means studying under someone as a teacher or master.
就つくN3
師事する explicitly means to study under a teacher as a disciple, while 就く in 師に就く is a more formal, literary way of expressing the same relationship.

Don't confuse with

指し示じN3
指示 (also read しじ) means an instruction or directive, while 師事 means to study under someone as a mentor; they sound identical but are unrelated in meaning.

Etymology

A Sino-Japanese compound written with 師, meaning teacher or master, and 事, associated here with serving or attending to someone. The compound conventionally expresses serving someone as one’s teacher and learning under them.