In Japanese, "farmer" is 農家 (nōka). It is a noun pronounced "n-oh-kah".
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農家 is written in kanji. Romanised as nōka, it sounds roughly like "n-oh-kah" to an English ear.
その農家は長年の経験があります。
Sono nōka wa naganen no keiken ga arimasu.
That farmer has many years of experience.
Nōka (農家) is the Japanese word for farmer. 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農家 is romanised as nōka. Say it roughly like "n-oh-kah" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
農家 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.
農家 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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