In Japanese, "teachers" is 教師 (kyōshi). It is a noun.
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教師 is written in kanji. Romanised as kyōshi, it sounds roughly like "kyoh-shee" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam教師 is romanised as kyōshi. Say it roughly like "kyoh-shee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
教師 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.
教師 is written using kanji. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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