けん
Meanings
Noun
1. event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal
Kanji used
occurence
case
Pitch accent
けん
Top 800
Composed of
individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
Used in vocabulary (76 in total)
major incident; major happening; big scandal
kidnapping; kidnaping
Examples (70 in total)
It was a strange affair.
I looked into the incident.
The police are looking into the matter.
He has no connection with this affair.
I don't want to be involved in this affair.
The police looked into that incident.
I have nothing to do with the affair.
The police will reveal the truth of the case.
Who will try this case?
Such an event is quite common here.
The matter was brought into court.
I'll explain the incident.
This is the place where the incident happened.
That incident made him famous.
I'll remember this incident forever.
He had to inquire into the record of the event.
The detective promised to look into the matter right away.
The event affected his future.
The police arrested the suspect in the case.
They submitted the case to the court.
Nobody could remember the sequence of events.
He gave me an outline of the affair.
At the time of the incident, Tom was in his office.
The affair is still wrapped in mystery.
Events of that type generally arouse suspicion.
That incident is printed on my mind.
Recently there have been a lot of nasty incidents with fraud.
His sudden death was a tragedy.
The event is still fresh in our memory.
A mother and her two children were stabbed to death in a slasher incident.
The lawyer decided to appeal the case.
I do remember the incident quite well.
She had nothing to do with the case.
Eventually, he forgot about the incident.
He mentioned the incident to his wife.
There must be something at the back of this matter.
He made an accurate report of the incident.
The police have decided to look into the case.
The two incidents are connected with each other.
Even though I witnessed the incident, I pretended not to have seen anything.
This event was good publicity for the company.
That incident happened right in front of him.
That incident put his courage to the test.
A reward has been offered for information pertaining to the incident.
He expressed regret over the affair.
We must study the affair as a whole.
The police dug out some facts about the matter.
She hired a private detective to inquire into the case.
Years intervene between the two incidents.
The lawyers argued the case for hours.
He intended to reexamine the case from the beginning.
A fact-finding committee was set up to determine the cause of the incident.
It seems that he knows something about that incident.
The man I thought was the criminal didn't have any connection to the incident.
The old man told us about the amusing incident.
Her account of the incident agrees with yours.
The police described how the case would be handled.
I've never come across such a strange case.
The event was forgotten as time went on.
I believe he is not guilty of the crime.
He found a clue to solve the mysterious affair.
Please keep me informed of the development of the case.
She was accused of having lied about the affair.
This is the same car that was left at the scene of the crime.
This was third school shooting incident in six months.
The police are making every effort to look into the case.
The police brutality incidents nearly set off a riot.
The 1990's saw various incidents.
To investigate the incident would take us at least three weeks.
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.