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遅らせる (おくらせる, okuraseru) Japanese meaning: delay | Kotomora
JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Conjugation 遅らせる · ichidan verb
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 遅おく らせる 遅おく らせない Polite 遅おく らせます 遅おく らせません Past polite 遅おく らせました 遅おく らせませんでした Past 遅おく らせた 遅おく らせなかった Te-form 遅おく らせて 遅おく らせないで Desire 遅おく らせたい 遅おく らせたくない Potential 遅おく らせられる also 遅おく らせれる 遅おく らせられない also 遅おく らせれない Passive 遅おく らせられる 遅おく らせられない Causative 遅おく らせさせる 遅おく らせさせない Causative passive 遅おく らせさせられる 遅おく らせさせられない Volitional 遅おく らせよう Polite volitional 遅おく らせましょう Imperative 遅おく らせろ 遅おく らせるな Conditional 遅おく らせれば 遅おく らせなければ Tara conditional 遅おく らせたら 遅おく らせなかったら
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会かい
議ぎ
の
開かい
始し
を
30
分ぷん
遅おく
らせ
た
。
We delayed the start of the meeting by 30 minutes.
Please set the clock back five minutes.
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 の 出しゅっ 発ぱつ を 遅おく らせる to delay the departure of something
The flight's departure was delayed because of the typhoon.
時と 計けい を 〈 数かず 〉 時じ 間かん 遅おく らせる to set a clock back by a number of hours
Since daylight saving ended, I set the clock back one hour.
〈 事こと 〉 の 開かい 始し を 遅おく らせる to delay the start of an event or process
We delayed the start of the meeting because not enough participants had arrived.
Transitive / intransitive Related words 延期する is a more formal word specifically for postponing a scheduled event to a later date, while 遅らせる is broader and can also mean slowing a process down.
延ばす can mean to extend a deadline or put something off, similar to 遅らせる, but it also covers stretching things out physically, which 遅らせる does not.
遅らす and 遅らせる both mean 'to delay something,' but 遅らせる is by far the more common form in everyday modern Japanese, while 遅らす sounds slightly more formal or literary.
Opposites 早める means to move something earlier or speed it up, the opposite of 遅らせる which means to push something later or slow it down.
遅らせる means to delay or push something back, the opposite of 進める's sense of speeding up or moving a schedule earlier.
遅らせる means to delay or push back a schedule, the opposite of 巻く's meaning of moving a schedule ahead.
Written forms 遅おく らせる Usage 98%
Standard kanji spelling; the most frequent written form.
おくらせる Usage 2%
後おく らせる
Uncommon variant; 遅らせる is strongly preferred in modern writing.
Etymology Causative/transitive form of 遅れる (おくれる, 'to be late'), formed by replacing the intransitive ending 〜れる with the transitive 〜せる.
