Illustration: At home, an adult tries to resume knitting after leaving the equipment untouched for a long time. Their needles hold only a few loose, uneven stitches, and an accidental hole has swallowed the tip of one finger.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

退たい化か

taika

to deteriorate, to regress

Example sentences

  1. また、長ながい留学生活りゅうがくせいかつで日本語能力にほんごのうりょくは通訳つうやくが必要ひつようなほど退化たいかしており、日本的風習にほんてきふうしゅうにも不慣ふなれであった。

    Moreover, Umeko had almost forgotten her Japanese language and needed an interpreter and also had difficulties with Japanese customs.

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

  2. 人類じんるいは生態系せいたいけいの退化たいかを防ふせぐことができるだろうか?

    Will humanity be able to prevent the degradation of ecosystems?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 進化しんかしてるんだか退化たいかしてるんだかよくわからない。

    I can’t tell whether we’re evolving or regressing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 退化

  • 退retreat; withdrawOnタイKunしりぞく・しりぞける・ひく
  • 化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける

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