Illustration: In a secondary school’s entrance office, a teenager in everyday clothes returns a folded school uniform and school-issued indoor shoes to a staff member.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

退たい学がく

taigaku

to drop out of school

It can also describe expulsion from school. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは十七歳じゅうななさいで高校こうこうを退学たいがくした。

    He left high school at seventeen.

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  2. 病気びょうきのため、彼かれはやむを得えず退学たいがくした。

    Illness forced him to give up school.

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  3. 父ちちは私わたしの退学たいがくに同意どういした。

    Father consented to my leaving school.

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Kanji in 退学

  • 退retreat; withdrawOnタイKunしりぞく・しりぞける・ひく
  • 学study; learningOnガクKunまなぶ

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