遅れる

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
おく
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
遲れる (kyūjitai)
後れる
See also 遅れ

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of 「遅れる
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
遅れる くれる
Imperative (命令形) 遅れろ くれろ
Key constructions
Passive 遅れられる くれられる
Causative 遅れさせる くれさせる
Potential - - -
Volitional 遅れよう くれよ
Negative 遅れない くれない
Negative perfective 遅れなかった くれなかった
Formal 遅れます くれま
Perfective 遅れた くれた
Conjunctive 遅れて くれて
Hypothetical conditional 遅れれば くれれ

Verb

(おく)れる (okureruintransitive ichidan (stem (おく) (okure), past (おく)れた (okureta))

Japanese verb pair
active 遅らす
mediopassive 遅れる
Japanese verb pair
active 遅らせる
mediopassive 遅れる
  1. to be late, to be tardy
    • 1989, Tawara Machi, Sarada kinenbi [Salad anniversary], page 64:
      (ふで)()(しょう)(わたし)は、(へん)()()こうと(おも)いつつ、ついつい(へん)()(おく)れた
      Fude bushō no watashi wa, henji o kakō to omoi tsutsu, tsuitsui henji ga okureta.
      I am a poor correspondent, always thinking to write a response, but against my better judgement my reply was tardy.
    • 1997, Galileo kōbō, editors, Rika hirameki jikken kōbō [Science inspiration workshop], page 29:
      ()(ほん)(せき)(どう)(じょう)()()していないのでさらに(きょ)()()え、(とう)(きょう)から(たい)()(えい)(せい)までの(きょ)()(やく )38000(さんまんはっせん )km(キロメートル)となり,(けっ)()として(やく )0(れい).(てん)2()5()( びょう)(おく)れていることになる。
      Nihon wa sekidō jō ni ichi shite-inai no de sara ni kyori ga fue, Tōkyō kara taiki eisei made no kyori wa yaku sanmanhassen kiromētoru to nari, kekka to shite yaku rei-ten-ni-go byō okurete-iru koto ni naru.
      Since Japan is not on the equator, the distance is further increased, to about 38,000 km from Tokyo to the satellite, and as a result receipt of the signal is delayed about 0.25 seconds.
  2. to become late, to fall behind

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References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN