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事

thing; matter; incident; occurrence

JLPT N3 common word Also written

Meaning

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

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