THE WORD · N4
こと
something; matter
Noun
同じことが運動場でも見られます。
We see the same thing on the playground.
Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: \N · French : Scott
Parts of speech
Noun · Noun used as a suffix
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Other written forms: 事
English dictionary meanings
- thing
- matter
- incident
- occurrence
- event
- something serious
- trouble
- crisis
- circumstances
- situation
- state of affairs
- work
- business
- affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ...
- playing make-believe ...
- alias
- also known as
- otherwise known as
- or
- necessity
- need
- you should ...
- I advise that you ...
- it's important to ...