事
こと
koto
What does 事 mean in English?
- thing; matter(n)
- incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis(n)
- circumstances; situation; state of affairs(n)
- work; business; affair(n)
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to(n)
- nominalizing suffix(n-suf)
- pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...(n-suf)
- alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or(n)
- necessity; need(n)
- you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...(n)
