VocabJLPT N2
offense
Suffix

Definitions

  1. 1. perpetrators of (some) crime
  2. 2. (some type of) crime
This suffix or noun refers to a criminal offender or perpetrator, often used in compound words to indicate a type of crime or criminal. For example, it appears in words meaning murderer or repeat offender.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

Wait, that person is the perpetrator?! Are you serious?!

Sentence 2

Why can't I remember what the perpetrator looked like?

Sentence 3

Wait, there's another perpetrator now?!

Sentence 4

"The perpetrator is someone close to us," my brother said, weirdly calm about it.

Sentence 5

Hey, how much of the information about the perpetrator can we actually trust?