Illustration: In a community woodworking class, most adult learners have completed small stools and are fitting neatly joined backs onto their next projects. At the same shared workbench, one learner still struggles to assemble the basic stool, surrounded by several unsuccessful corner joints.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

落おちこぼれ

ochikobore

person who falls behind

This can sound derogatory when used of a person. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. タクシー運転手うんてんしゅになった東大卒とうだいそつの木村きむらさんは誰だれかの物指ものさしで、落おちこぼれなのかもしれないけど、運転好うんてんすきならいいんじゃないかな。

    Kimura is a Tokyo university graduate who became a taxi driver. According to some people’s standards, he might be considered a failure, but I think it’s fine as long as he likes driving.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 父親ちちおやからは、頭あたまが悪わるく、落おちこぼれと見みなされていた。

    His father saw him as a dropout and stupid.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 先生せんせいは生徒せいとを落おちこぼれと呼よばないようにしている。

    The teacher avoids labeling students as failures.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 落

  • 落fall; dropOnラクKunおちる・おち・おとす

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