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堕落 (だらく, daraku) Japanese meaning: depravity | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 堕落する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 堕だ 落らく する 堕だ 落らく しない Polite 堕だ 落らく します 堕だ 落らく しません Past polite 堕だ 落らく しました 堕だ 落らく しませんでした Past 堕だ 落らく した 堕だ 落らく しなかった Te-form 堕だ 落らく して 堕だ 落らく しないで Desire 堕だ 落らく したい 堕だ 落らく したくない Potential 堕だ 落らく できる 堕だ 落らく できない Passive 堕だ 落らく される 堕だ 落らく されない Causative 堕だ 落らく させる 堕だ 落らく させない Causative passive 堕だ 落らく させられる 堕だ 落らく させられない Volitional 堕だ 落らく しよう Polite volitional 堕だ 落らく しましょう Imperative 堕だ 落らく しろ 堕だ 落らく するな Conditional 堕だ 落らく すれば 堕だ 落らく しなければ Tara conditional 堕だ 落らく したら 堕だ 落らく しなかったら
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彼かれ
は
酒さけ
と
ギャンブル
で
堕だ
落らく
し
た
生せい
活かつ
を
送おく
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て
いる
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He leads a depraved life of drinking and gambling.
Abuse of power leads to political corruption.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 堕だ 落らく する for someone to become depraved/degenerate
He degenerated through drinking and gambling.
〈 事こと 〉 に 堕だ 落らく する to degenerate into (a bad state or condition)
The movement degenerated into a mere money-making scheme.
堕だ 落らく した 〈 人ひと 〉 a corrupt/degenerate person
He is known as a corrupt politician.
堕だ 落らく の 道みち をたどる to go down the path of moral degradation
She gradually went down the path of moral decline.
Kanji 堕 degenerate, descend to, lapse into Related words· 9 退廃 stresses decadence and decline in art, culture, or society, while 堕落 focuses on an individual's moral or spiritual fall.
腐敗 literally means rot or decay and is used for physical decomposition or institutional corruption, whereas 堕落 is specifically about a person's moral degradation.
破滅 means ruin or downfall as an end result, while 堕落 describes the gradual process of moral corruption that may lead there.
堕落 stresses personal moral corruption or a fall from grace, while 退廃的 describes a broader cultural, artistic, or societal decline into decadence.
Show 5 more 堕落する describes a person morally degenerating through their own conduct, while 汚れる (けがれる) describes being made impure, often by an outside or spiritual cause, and carries a more literary or religious tone.
堕落する describes the process of becoming morally corrupt or depraved, while 堕ちる emphasizes the resulting state of having sunk to that low point.
堕落する describes moral or personal degeneration over time, while 汚れる (in its figurative sense) can describe a single act tainting one's purity or reputation.
Don't confuse with 堕落 means moral corruption or degeneration, while 没落 refers to a fall in social or financial status, not necessarily involving moral decline.
堕落 refers to moral corruption or degeneration of a person, while 低落 refers to a measurable drop in price, popularity, or status.
Written forms 堕だ 落らく Usage 97%
Standard kanji spelling; it is the primary form.
ダラク Usage 2%
だらく Usage 2%
Etymology The kanji 堕 means 'to fall' or 'to degenerate', and 落 means 'to fall' or 'to drop'. Together they form a compound meaning 'to fall into depravity'. The reading だらく is the on'yomi of both characters.
徳とく
堕落 emphasizes a personal fall into depravity or decline, while 背徳 focuses on the act of violating moral principles itself.
堕落 emphasizes moral corruption or degeneration, while 転落 can refer to any kind of decline, moral or social, often triggered by a specific event.
