発明, はつめい
Takes suru
1. invention
NA-adjective, dated term
2. intelligent, clever, smart
Archaism
3. making sense (of something), understanding
エジソンが電球を発明した。
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)