落とす · godan verb (-su)
| Form | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 落とす | 落とさない |
| Polite | 落とします | 落としません |
| Past polite | 落としました | 落としませんでした |
| Past | 落とした | 落とさなかった |
| Te-form | 落として | 落とさないで |
| Desire | 落としたい | 落としたくない |
| Potential | 落とせる | 落とせない |
| Passive | 落とされる | 落とされない |
| Causative | 落とさせる | 落とさせない |
| Causative passive | 落とさせられる | 落とさせられない |
| Volitional | 落とそう | |
| Polite volitional | 落としましょう | |
| Imperative | 落とせ | 落とすな |
| Conditional | 落とせば | 落とさなければ |
| Tara conditional | 落としたら | 落とさなかったら |
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
drop; let fall; lose; cast downward
Core physical use: something is made to fall or is accidentally dropped or lost. Also used with 視線, 光, and small amounts of liquid, as in lowering one's gaze or dropping liquid into something.
I dropped and lost my wallet at the station.
She silently lowered her gaze.
I dropped a bit of milk into the coffee.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
Used for removing makeup, dirt, stains, paint, facial hair, or for omitting an item from a list, text, or selection.
I remove my makeup as soon as I get home.
This detergent can remove even grease stains.
They left his name off the list.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
spend money; lose money
With お金 or a money amount, often means to spend money at a place, especially as customers or tourists; in gambling-like contexts it can mean to lose money.
Tourists spend money at local shops.
He lost a large sum of money on horse racing.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
secretly let escape
A limited and uncommon use meaning to let a prisoner or similar person escape secretly. It is not the normal modern verb for 'let escape,' which is usually 逃がす.
In older usage, 罪人を落とす can mean to secretly let a criminal escape.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
lose a match; drop a game
Used when a team or player loses a match, game, set, or other contest that they had been playing.
The team lost an important match and fell from first place.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
reject; fail someone; defeat in an election
Transitive use from the viewpoint of a judge, school, employer, voters, or similar authority: to make someone fail, reject an applicant, or remove a candidate by defeating them.
They rejected several applicants at the interview stage.
The professor failed the students who lacked attendance.
It is not easy to defeat an incumbent in an election.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
lower; reduce; degrade; fall on hard times
Used for lowering a voice or shoulders, reducing weight or output, worsening quality or reputation, and in 身を落とす for sinking into reduced circumstances or a degraded position.
He lowered his voice a little as he spoke.
We want to lower costs without reducing quality.
He fell on hard times because of debt.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
put down; speak badly of; make light of
Used for lowering someone in others' estimation: disparaging them, belittling them, or making them look worse.
Stop putting others down to make yourself look good.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
capture; take; win at auction; force surrender
Used for taking a castle, stronghold, or target by overcoming resistance, and for successfully winning an item with a bid at auction.
The army took the castle in three days.
I won an old watch at auction.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
break down; force a confession; convince forcefully
Used when pressure, questioning, negotiation, or persuasion finally makes someone yield, confess, or accept a position. This overlaps with colloquial 'win over' uses but is often stronger.
The detective wore the suspect down into confessing through persistent questioning.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
put into a bad state; bring into sin or difficulty
Less common or literary-feeling use for making someone or something fall into a dilemma, sin, or other bad state. Modern Japanese often uses 陥れる or 陥らせる for this idea.
A careless decision put the company in a difficult position.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
download; copy to another medium
Computing use: to download data or copy it down from a computer or network to another device or storage medium.
I download the materials to my computer before reading them.
I downloaded the app to my phone.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
make someone pass out
Martial arts use, especially in judo contexts, for making an opponent lose consciousness, commonly with a choke or similar technique.
In judo, a chokehold can make an opponent pass out.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
end a story with a punch line; bring a story to its payoff
Used with 話 and similar words when finishing a joke, anecdote, rakugo-like story, or comic setup with an おち or punch line.
He ended the story with a silly pun.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
end a period of fasting or abstinence
Traditional or fixed-expression use, as in 精進を落とす, meaning to end a period of fasting, abstinence, or ritual restraint.
After the memorial service, the relatives ended the period of abstinence with a meal.
godan verb (-su), transitive verb
win over; seduce; overcome someone's resistance
Colloquial use for getting someone to give in emotionally or socially, including romantic or sexual seduction. It can sound calculating or rough depending on context.
He tried to win her over with sweet words.
After repeated negotiations, we finally won over the person in charge.
He's said to be able to win over anyone easily.
I accidentally dropped my wallet on the train.
I always remove my makeup before going to bed.
Tourists spend a lot of money in this town.
The team ended up losing an important match.
The army captured the enemy's castle within a few days.
I downloaded the photos onto my computer before organizing them.
She lowered her gaze bashfully.
陥れる is the clearer, more deliberate verb for trapping someone into a bad situation, while 落とす has only a weaker, more literary sense of the same idea.
落とす means to physically drop or misplace something, whereas 失う implies a more permanent or abstract loss.
落とす can mean to reduce speed (スピードを落とす), a common alternative to 速度を緩める with the same practical meaning.
落とす is the general verb for dropping or lowering something, physically or abstractly, while 貶める is specifically about damaging someone's status, value, or reputation with moral disapproval.
debit; withdrawal; automatic payment · frontal pull-down; hiki-otoshi
thrusting down; pushing down
thrust down; push off
cut off; lop off; prune
knock down; shoot down; lop off
settlement; making amends; settling a score
take down in notes; record; put into writing · apply; incorporate; translate into practice · drop into; put into · entice; lure; trick
overlook; fail to notice; miss
seahorse
opening of a new theater; inaugural performance
chasing down; pushing down; deposing; ousting · connect-and-die; oiotoshi
oust; dethrone; displace from power · drive down; chase down · capture a castle; seize by driving out · drive away; exile; snatch; wrest
pull down · debit; withdraw; pay by direct debit
body drop (judo); body throw
exorcism; warding off evil; escape from bad luck
shoot down · win over; gain (someone's heart, a position)
draining water from pipes (for winter)
mud scraper; doormat
ash tray; ash pit
omission; oversight
fail to do; neglect; make light of
It is a search-only kanji form. It visually emphasizes falling downward; use 落とす in ordinary writing.