Illustration: On a quiet residential pavement outside a small Japanese bakery, a pedestrian pauses halfway through a step as one sneaker lace slips free. One side of the bow has collapsed into a long loose end, and the remaining loop is visibly sliding through the loosened knot.

ほどける

hodokeru

to come untied, to come undone

Example sentences

ネクタイがほどけてるよ。
Your tie has come undone.
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そんな結むすび方かただと、ほどけるよ。
If you tie it like that, it’ll come undone.
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ほら、靴くつの紐ひもがほどけているよ。
Look, your shoelaces have come undone.
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