欠席, けっせき
Takes suru, Intransitive, Antonym: 出席
absence, non-attendance
欠席された友人たちのために、乾杯しましょう。
が
Particle
1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
Conjunction
3. but, however, still, and
after the volitional form of a verb
4. regardless of, whether (or not)