JapanLingo

社員しゃいん

shain

company employee

N3

How to remember this word

Picture the last situation where you needed the idea of “company employee” — at work, at the station, online — and attach 社員 to that exact scene.

Example sentences

Example 1

kono kaisha ni wa gaikokujin no shain ga ooi desu.

This company has many foreign employees.

Example 2

shain nara, kono shokudou o yasuku riyou dekimasu.

If you are an employee, you can use this cafeteria cheaply.