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VocabularyJLPT N4 · core

原因

げんいん
hepburn genin

cause

Part of speech · noun

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cause
kamaebigkamae
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Examples

  1. 火事の原因はまだ分かりません。
    The cause of the fire is still unknown.
  2. 寝不足が原因で頭が痛いです。
    My headache is caused by lack of sleep.

Collocations

原因がある原因を調べる原因が分かる原因不明事故の原因

Mnemonic

原因 gen-in — 原 (origin, source) + 因 (cause, owing to). The root reason something happened, paired with 結果 (kekka, result). Note the reading: ge + n + in. The pattern 〜が原因で (caused by ~) is very common.

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  1. Which pattern expresses "caused by ~"?

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