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紛失 (ふんしつ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation 紛失する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 紛ふん 失しつ する 紛ふん 失しつ しない Polite 紛ふん 失しつ します 紛ふん 失しつ しません Past polite 紛ふん 失しつ しました 紛ふん 失しつ しませんでした Past 紛ふん 失しつ した 紛ふん 失しつ しなかった Te-form 紛ふん 失しつ して 紛ふん 失しつ しないで Desire 紛ふん 失しつ したい 紛ふん 失しつ したくない Potential 紛ふん 失しつ できる 紛ふん 失しつ できない Passive 紛ふん 失しつ される 紛ふん 失しつ されない Causative 紛ふん 失しつ させる 紛ふん 失しつ させない Causative passive 紛ふん 失しつ させられる 紛ふん 失しつ させられない Volitional 紛ふん 失しつ しよう Polite volitional 紛ふん 失しつ しましょう Imperative 紛ふん 失しつ しろ 紛ふん 失しつ するな Conditional 紛ふん 失しつ すれば 紛ふん 失しつ しなければ Tara conditional 紛ふん 失しつ したら 紛ふん 失しつ しなかったら
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あい
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すぐ
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使し
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If you lose your passport, contact the embassy immediately.
Usage patterns 〈 物もの 〉 の 紛ふん 失しつ に 気き づく to notice that an item has gone missing
I noticed my passport was missing before departure.
紛失届ふんしつとどけ を 出だ す to file a report of loss
Since I lost my wallet, I filed a lost-property report at the police box.
〈 物もの 〉 が 紛ふん 失しつ する for an item to go missing
The package went missing during delivery.
紛ふん 失しつ の 責せき 任にん を 負お う to bear responsibility for a loss
The company bore responsibility for losing the important documents.
Kanji 紛 distract, be mistaken for, go astray Transitive / intransitive 紛失 is used both transitively and intransitively: transitively as 荷物を紛失する ("to lose the luggage"), and intransitively as 荷物が紛失する ("the luggage goes missing").
Related words なくす is the everyday verb for losing something, while 紛失 is the formal, document-style term used in business, police, and travel contexts.
失う is a broader verb that can mean losing abstract things like trust or opportunities, whereas 紛失 refers specifically to a physical item going missing.
紛失 is the formal, often written term for losing an item (as in official reports), whereas ロスト is a casual, borrowed alternative used in tech or business speech.
Don't confuse with 盗難 specifically means theft, while 紛失 only states that something is missing and does not imply it was stolen.
消失 means something vanishing or ceasing to exist (e.g. data, a phenomenon), whereas 紛失 is used for a physical belonging going missing.
遺失 is a legal term emphasizing unintentionally leaving an item behind (as in 遺失物, lost-and-found items), while 紛失 more generally means the item cannot be found.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound written with 紛, associated here with confusion or disorder, and 失, meaning loss. The compound conventionally means loss or misplacement.
紛ふん 糾きゅう
紛糾 means a situation becomes chaotic or deadlocked, whereas 紛失 means to lose an object, despite sharing the kanji 紛.
