事

こと / こん

• Noun

  common noun
  1. thing; matter.
  2. incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis.
  3. circumstances; situation; state of affairs.
  4. work; business; affair.
  5. after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to.

• Suffix noun
  1. nominalizing suffix.

     See also 事 .

  2. pretending to ...; playing make-believe ....

     See also 事 .