けいじ
Meanings
Noun
1. (police) detective
I am talking with a detective now.
Pre-noun adjective
Noun
2. criminal matter
Pitch accent
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いじ
Composed of
penalty; sentence; punishment
individual concrete phenomenon (as opposed to a general principle)
Used in vocabulary (29 in total)
police drama (television); detective drama
criminal case
criminal trial
Examples (14 in total)
He is a detective.
Even detectives have ordinary days.
I'm glad you became a detective.
I am talking with a detective now.
The man aimed a gun at the detective.
That is probably a detective's intuition.
The detectives pursued him.
The detective promised to look into the matter right away.
The detectives caught the culprit within a week.
He is not, strictly speaking, a detective of the Metropolitan Police Department.
They posted detectives outside the culprit's house.
So what you're saying is that I was a super detective, right?
The thief ran away at the sight of a detective.
The detective questioned literally thousands of people about the incident.