In Japanese, "accountant" is 会計士 (kaikeishi). It is a noun pronounced "kah-ee-keh-ee-shee".
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会計士 is written in kanji. Romanised as kaikeishi, it sounds roughly like "kah-ee-keh-ee-shee" to an English ear.
病院の会計士はいつも忙しそうです。
Byouin no kaikeishi wa itsumo isogashisou desu.
The accountant at the hospital always looks busy.
Kaikeishi (会計士) is the Japanese word for accountant. Job titles in Japanese use a variety of endings: shi (士) for licensed professionals, sha (者) for workers, while modern roles often use katakana loanwords.
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Buy on Steam会計士 is romanised as kaikeishi. Say it roughly like "kah-ee-keh-ee-shee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
会計士 is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
会計士 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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