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落第 (らくだい): failure, dropping out of a class — Japanese vocabulary

落第 is read らくだい and means "failure, dropping out of a class". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

落第

Reading
らくだい · rakudai
Translation
failure, dropping out of a class
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
らくだいが

Example

彼はそれまで怠けていたので試験に落第した。

かれはそれまでなまけていたのでしけんにらくだいした。

He, who had been lazy, failed his exam.

Kanji in this word

  • 落 — fall, drop
  • 第 — ordinal prefix

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