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敗れる (yabureru) Japanese meaning: be defeated | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N2 › Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation 敗れる · ichidan verb
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 敗やぶ れる 敗やぶ れない Polite 敗やぶ れます 敗やぶ れません Past polite 敗やぶ れました 敗やぶ れませんでした Past 敗やぶ れた 敗やぶ れなかった Te-form 敗やぶ れて 敗やぶ れないで Desire 敗やぶ れたい 敗やぶ れたくない Potential 敗やぶ れられる also 敗やぶ れれる 敗やぶ れられない also 敗やぶ れれない Passive 敗やぶ れられる 敗やぶ れられない Causative 敗やぶ れさせる 敗やぶ れさせない Causative passive 敗やぶ れさせられる 敗やぶ れさせられない Volitional 敗やぶ れよう Polite volitional 敗やぶ れましょう Imperative 敗やぶ れろ 敗やぶ れるな Conditional 敗やぶ れれば 敗やぶ れなければ Tara conditional 敗やぶ れたら 敗やぶ れなかったら
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He was defeated in the election.
Our team lost in the finals.
Usage patterns 〈 相あい 手て 〉 に 敗やぶ れる to be defeated by (an opponent)
We were defeated by last year's champion team in the final.
〈 場ば 所しょ 〉 で 敗やぶ れる to lose at (a match, competition, election, etc.)
He lost the mayoral election.
〈 数かず 〉 対たい 〈 数かず 〉 で 敗やぶ れる to lose by a score of (X to Y)
The team lost by a score of 2 to 1.
Kanji 敗 failure, defeat, reversal Transitive / intransitive Related words 負ける is the common, everyday word for losing, while 敗れる is more formal and typically used in written or news contexts about contests, battles, or elections.
敗れる is the more formal, literary word for losing a match or contest, while 倒れる carries the same sense but is slightly more casual.
Don't confuse with 破れる (same reading, different kanji) means 'to be torn or broken' (paper, dreams), while 敗れる means 'to be defeated' in a contest.
破る means to defeat an opponent (the winner's action), while 敗れる (same reading as 破れる) means to be defeated or lose, the opposite outcome.
Etymology The defeat sense developed as a semantic specialization of 破れる ‘be broken, be torn.’ The spelling 敗れる distinguishes defeat or failure from physical tearing.
