事じ件けん
Meanings
Noun
1. event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble; scandal
The culprit was there when the incident occurred.
Kanji used
occurence
case
Pitch accent
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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 (97 in total)
major incident; major happening; big scandal
kidnapping; kidnaping
Examples (117 in total)
It was a strange affair.
The incident happened in winter, didn't it?
Two days had passed since the incident.
It was a case we had been handling.
I was able to grasp the gist of the incident.
The incident occurred that night.
I looked into the incident.
Incidents become more likely to occur.
He has no connection with this affair.
The police are looking into the matter.
I don't want to be involved in this affair.
I want to grasp the key points of this case.
Who's involved in that incident?
The police looked into that incident.
I got mixed up in a troublesome incident.
I have nothing to do with the affair.
Please do not escalate the incident on your own.
The outline of the incident has become clear.
We should investigate the disappearance case.
There was an incident in which a child was kidnapped.
The police will reveal the truth of the case.
Are the two incidents being considered as connected?
Until now, incidents like this hadn't happened.
There was a case of animal abuse, you see.
That incident drew his interest.
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.
I will tell of the incident.
This incident has called the police's handling of it into question.
That incident made him famous.
This incident could make good material for a movie.
He had to inquire into the record of the event.
I'll remember this incident forever.
The event affected his future.
The detective promised to look into the matter right away.
There is a strong suspicion that it was not an accident but a crime.
The incident made the front page of the newspaper.
After the incident, he lay low for a while.
I hear there was no wind on the night of the incident.
A new aspect of the case has come into view.
The assassination of the president shocked the world.
The police arrested the suspect in the case.
In the end, the truth about the incident was hushed up for good.
The 1990's saw various incidents.
They submitted the case to the court.
Last month, I was caught up in a certain incident.
That incident harmed his reputation.
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.
He intended to reexamine the case from the beginning.
The lawyer decided to appeal the case.
I do remember the incident quite well.
She had nothing to do with the case.
He had nothing to do with the case.
Eventually, he forgot about the incident.
There must be something at the back of this matter.
He mentioned the incident to his wife.
He made an accurate report of the incident.
The police have decided to look into the case.
The incident gave a shock to the whole school.
There is no precedent for an incident like this.
He backed us up during that incident.
The two incidents are connected with each other.
Since that incident, he has been estranged from his family.
There is almost no violence in that city.
After all, it looks like that guy is at the heart of this whole case.
Even though I witnessed the incident, I pretended not to have seen anything.
It was decided to reinvestigate the incident.
That's the incident that nearly brought the city to a standstill, right?
If we just expose that, this case will be solved.
The first incident happened two months ago.
This event was good publicity for the company.
That incident politically awakened many young people.
Whenever there is an incident, I am always made to realize my own weakness.
That incident happened right in front of him.
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.
Years intervene between the two incidents.
She hired a private detective to inquire into the case.
The lawyers argued the case for hours.
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.
Their movements after this incident still haven't been traced, even now.
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.
Perhaps the truth of the past incident is as my father says.
I've never come across such a strange case.
So, little by little, it's become very likely that this is a criminal case.
Next, I would like to ask about the night the incident occurred.
Other students who witnessed it reported it to the school, and the incident came to light.
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.
She was accused of having lied about the affair.
The explanation of the event was omitted for lack of space.
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.
Please listen to my advice, go to the police, and report the incident.
To investigate the incident would take us at least three weeks.
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.
The modus operandi was very similar to the incident from six years ago.
The police brutality incidents nearly set off a riot.