Translation guide
The English word 'droop' describes a downward sagging, bending, or hanging, often due to weakness, tiredness, or lack of support. In Japanese, the expression depends on what is drooping and why.
To describe something living or body-related sagging or hanging down, often from fatigue, sadness, or wilting.
General verb for something hanging down or drooping. Used for shoulders, head, branches, etc. Intransitive.
My shoulders are drooping from fatigue.
To hang one's head in shame, sadness, or disappointment. Specifically for the head drooping forward.
To wilt or droop, used for plants and flowers. Also metaphorically for a person's spirit.
Kanji form of うなだれる, more literary.
To describe non-living things sagging or hanging loosely downward.
To describe sagging or drooping of parts of the face, often due to tiredness or aging.
To sag, droop, or become slack. Commonly used for skin, eyelids, or cheeks losing firmness.
To describe a feeling of discouragement, sadness, or loss of energy.
垂れる (たれる) is a general verb for hanging down. 垂れ下がる (たれさがる) emphasizes the state of hanging down loosely, often for objects. たるむ is used for loss of tension, like sagging skin or a slack rope.
While 'droop' can describe mood in English, direct translations like 気分が垂れる are unnatural. Use 落ち込む or しょげる instead.
The flowers drooped from the heat.
彼は叱られてうなだれた。
He drooped his head after being scolded.
水をやらないと花がしおれる。
The flowers will droop if you don't water them.
彼は項垂れて歩いていた。
He was walking with his head drooping.
To hang down, droop, or dangle. Used for objects like curtains, ropes, or loose clothing.
The curtain is drooping.
His pants were drooping.
To droop limply or loosely. Often used adverbially with 垂れる.
The dog's tongue is drooping limply.
To hang down, dangle, or droop. Emphasizes hanging from a point of attachment.
The monkey is drooping from the tree branch.
As you age, your eyelids droop.
To hang down or droop. Used for eyebrows, corners of the mouth, etc.
The corners of my mouth are drooping from tiredness.
To feel down, depressed, or in low spirits. Metaphorical drooping of mood.
My spirits are drooping after the failure.
To be dispirited, dejected, or droop in spirit. Casual.
He's drooping just from being scolded a little.
To be dispirited or dejected; a more formal, literary expression.
The team's spirits are drooping after the defeat.