Illustration: At a Japanese apartment entrance, a resident struggles to hold a grocery bag while taking out their keys. The key ring has just slipped through their fingers and is falling toward the tiled entrance floor, directly beneath the open hand.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

落おとす

otosu

to drop, to lose

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは花瓶かびんを落おとした。

    He dropped a vase.

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  2. 彼かれは床ゆかに本ほんを落おとした。

    He dropped his books on the floor.

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  3. 道みちの途中とちゅうで鍵かぎを落おとしたに違ちがいない。

    I must have lost my key along the way.

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Kanji in 落

  • 落fall; dropOnラクKunおちる・おち・おとす

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