| こと |
| 1. n. broadly, any abstract thing, affair, matter, or fact | |
| 2. n. a thing, occasion, circumstances, detail, particular | |
| 些細な事だ。 - It is a trivial matter. | |
| いやしくもなすに足る事なら立派にやるだけの価値がある。 - If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. | |
| お前のことが好きだ。 - masculine speech | |
| そんな こと じゃ ない。 - literally It is not that kind of matter. | |
| そんな こと は ない。 - literally That kind of matter does not exist. | |
| 3. n. act of (word used for the nominalization of verbs, adjectives, or phrases) | |
| ある程度まで私はあなたの言うことに賛成です。 - I agree with what you say to some extent. | |
| 考えること5分 - The act of thinking five minutes | |
| 4. n. (by extension) experience, having been or done (used with ある, tr=aru, t=have, possess) | |
| 京都に行ったことが有りますか。 - Have you ever been to Kyoto? | |
| 彼は学校に遅刻することが有る。 - He is sometimes late for school. | |
| 5. n. event of special importance: affair, something, incident, case, occurrence, trouble | |
| 大変なことが起こった。 - A terrible accident occurred. | |
| 6. n. business matters, affairs, business, work, duty | |
| 慌てて事を運ぶとミスをしますよ。 - You make mistakes if you do things in a hurry. | |
| 7. n. (Used as a nominalizer for precepts.) | |
| ○○は各自持参のこと。 - Each brings their own X. | |
| ○○は正しく使用すること。 - X is to be used properly. | |
| 8. n. It is said that; I've heard that (used with とのこと) | |
| ○○は存在しないとのこと - X is said to not exist. | |
| 明日は晴れるとのことだ。 - Apparently the weather will be fine tomorrow. | |
| 9. n. (Used to introduce aliases/stage names.) | |
| こんまりこと近藤麻理恵 - Marie Kondo, also known as KonMari, also known as KonMari | |
| 10. n. Usage: * (ja-uk) | |
| 11. n. Usage: * こと is used for abstract things, such as an action or concept. 物 is used for more concrete things, such as physical objects. | |
| 12. n. Usage: * Besides ヿ, a hiragana abbreviation also exists, File:Ligature hiragana koto.gif, which is presently not in Unicode. | |
