自首

Meanings

1. Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive

   surrender (to the authorities); giving oneself up; turning oneself in

• その犯人はんにんは警察けいさつに自首じしゅした。

  The criminal gave himself up to the police.

• 彼かれは警察けいさつに自首じしゅしたそうです。

  I heard that he gave himself up to the police.

• 私わたしは彼かれを説得せっとくして警察けいさつに自首じしゅさせた。

  I persuaded him to give himself up to the police.

• ひき逃にげの犯人はんにんは翌日よくじつ父親ちちおやに伴ともなわれて自首じしゅしてきました。

  The hit-and-run driver, accompanied by his father, came and turned himself in the next day.