げんいん – Vocabulary details

げんいん

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

1. cause; origin; source

この騒さわぎの原げん因いんは何なんだ？What is the cause of this uproar?

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んいん

original; primitive; primary; fundamental; proto-

cause; factor; hetu (direct cause, esp. as opposed to indirect conditions); the basis of one's argument (in hetuvidya)

cause unknown

investigation to determine the cause (of); tracing something back to its origin

source, cause of an accident

私わたしがげんいんかもしれません。

I might be the cause.

爆ばく発はつのげんいんは何なんだったの？

What was the cause of the explosion?

病びょう気きのげんいんを探さぐらないと。

I have to investigate the cause of the illness.

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