事 (Koto) is a Japanese noun meaning “thing, matter, incident, occurrence”.
Meanings
- nounthing; matter
- nounincident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
- nouncircumstances; situation; state of affairs
- nounwork; business; affair
- nounafter an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- noun suffixnominalizing suffix
Examples
田中さんのことを頼むよ。
Take care of Mr. Tanaka for me!
彼は思ったことを口にする。
He's a plain speaker.
僕には彼女の言うことが分かった。
I got what she was saying.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).