In Japanese, "builder" is 建築業者 (kenchikugyōsha). It is a noun pronounced "keh-n-chee-koo-gyoh-shah".
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建築業者 is written in kanji. Romanised as kenchikugyōsha, it sounds roughly like "keh-n-chee-koo-gyoh-shah" to an English ear.
町には優秀な建築業者がいます。
Machi ni wa yuushuu na kenchikugyōsha ga imasu.
There is a skilled builder in town.
Kenchikugyōsha (建築業者) is the Japanese word for builder. 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建築業者 is romanised as kenchikugyōsha. Say it roughly like "keh-n-chee-koo-gyoh-shah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
建築業者 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.
建築業者 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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