落ちる
Japanese
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 落 |
| お Grade: 3 |
| kun’yomi |
Etymology
/ot͡su/ → /ot͡ʃiru/
From Old Japanese 落つ (otsu, “to fall”), which underwent the same Muromachi period shift as all 二段活用動詞 (nidan katsuyō dōshi, “bigrade-conjugation verbs”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Verb
落ちる (intransitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana おちる, rōmaji ochiru)
- to fall
- (computing) to go down (as when a computer or application becomes unresponsive)
- (electrical engineering, of a circuit breaker) to trip
- ブレーカーが落ちた
- burēkā ga ochita
- the circuit breaker tripped
- ブレーカーが落ちた
Conjugation
Conjugation of "落ちる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 落ち | おち | ochi | |
| Continuative (連用形) | 落ち | おち | ochi | |
| Terminal (終止形) | 落ちる | おちる | ochiru | |
| Attributive (連体形) | 落ちる | おちる | ochiru | |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 落ちれ | おちれ | ochire | |
| Imperative (命令形) | 落ちよ¹ 落ちろ² |
おちよ¹ おちろ² |
ochiyo¹ ochiro² | |
| Key constructions | ||||
| Passive | 落ちられる | おちられる | ochirareru | |
| Causative | 落ちさせる 落ちさす |
おちさせる おちさす |
ochisaseru ochisasu | |
| Potential | 落ちられる 落ちれる³ |
おちられる おちれる³ |
ochirareru ochireru³ | |
| Volitional | 落ちよう | おちよう | ochiyō | |
| Negative | 落ちない 落ちぬ 落ちん |
おちない おちぬ おちん |
ochinai ochinu ochin | |
| Negative continuative | 落ちず | おちず | ochizu | |
| Formal | 落ちます | おちます | ochimasu | |
| Perfective | 落ちた | おちた | ochita | |
| Conjunctive | 落ちて | おちて | ochite | |
| Hypothetical conditional | 落ちれば | おちれば | ochireba | |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential | ||||
Idioms
- 猿も木から落ちる (saru mo ki kara ochiru): “even monkeys fall from trees” → even the experts make mistakes
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