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事 こと N4

  1. matter; thing
  2. crisis; event; incident; occurrence; something serious; trouble
  3. circumstances; situation; state of affairs
  4. affair; business; work
  5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
  6. nominalizing suffix
  7. playing make-believe ...; pretending to ...
  8. alias; also known as; or; otherwise known as
  9. necessity; need
  10. I advise that you ...; it's important to ...; you should ...

事 じ

  1. individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)

事 ごと

  1. nominalizing suffix
  2. playing make-believe ...; pretending to ...

事務所 じむしょ N4

  1. office

事故 じこ N4

  1. accident; incident; trouble
  2. circumstances; reasons

事件 じけん N3

  1. affair; case; event; incident; plot; scandal; trouble

事実 じじつ N3

  1. fact; reality; truth

事情 じじょう N3

  1. circumstances; conditions; reasons; situation; state of affairs

事前 じぜん N1

  1. before the fact; beforehand; ex ante; in advance; prior

事柄 ことがら N1

  1. affair; circumstance; matter; thing
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