せい
Meanings
Noun
Usually written in kana
1. consequence; outcome; result; blame
often ...のせい
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (5 in total)
because of; owing to; due to
it may be because
in one's imagination
Examples (30 in total)
This is your fault.
Is that my fault?
It's not my fault!
Are you saying this is my fault?
It wasn't your fault.
Whose fault is it?
I am sorry, It's all my fault.
It's probably my fault.
I overslept because I stayed up late.
It's my fault, not yours.
It's all your fault.
It wasn't our fault. Believe me.
Are you responsible for this mess?
It's not Tom's fault.
Your headache comes from overwork.
Their late arrival was owing to the rain.
This failure is due to your mistake.
The school's closure was due to the snow.
He blamed the failure on his brother.
"Why is Mary crying?" "Because of you."
I'm sure that Ted's cough is due to smoking.
Is it the vacuum cleaner's fault that the room is dusty?
My back hurts because I fell asleep on the floor yesterday.
He attributed his success to good luck.
Perhaps that's the reason why Tom isn't here today.
We think that the narrow road was responsible for the accident.
At the moment they think that the accident is due to his carelessness.
It's not so much the heat as the humidity that makes me tired.
The accident was due to the drunken driving of a certain film star.
That was because my watch was five minutes slow.