落第

Chinese
to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind (ordinal prefix); ‑th; rank
trad. (落第) 落 第
simp. #(落第) 落 第

Pronunciation

Verb

落第

  1. (archaic) to fail in an imperial examination
  2. (by extension) to fail an exam or test
  3. (Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka) to repeat a grade in school

Synonyms
  • (to fail in an imperial examination): 下第 (xiàdì)
  • (to repeat a grade):
Dialectal synonyms of 留級 (“to repeat a grade”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 留級, 留班
Mandarin Beijing 蹲班
Taiwan 留級
Yantai (Muping) 蹲班, 坐班
Jinan 留級
Luoyang 留級
Wanrong 留級
Yinchuan 留級, 踏級
Xuzhou 蹲級
Cantonese Guangzhou 留班, 留級
Hong Kong 留班, 㨆班
Gan Pingxiang 留級
Hakka Miaoli (N. Sixian) 落第
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 落第
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 落第
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 落第
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 落第
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 落第
Northern Min Jian'ou 坐班
Eastern Min Fuzhou 降班
Southern Min Xiamen 甪班
Tainan 落第
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 留級, 笪班
Wu Shanghai (Chongming) 留級
Suzhou 留級
Hangzhou 留級
Ningbo 留級

Japanese
Kanji in this term
落 第
らく
Grade: 3		 だい
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) らくだい [ràkúdáí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [ɾa̠kɯ̟ᵝda̠i]

Noun

落(らく)第(だい) • (rakudai) 

  1. failure (in an examination)
  2. failure (to advance to the next grade or graduate from school)

Antonyms

See also
  • 不合格(ふごうかく) (fugōkaku)

Verb

落(らく)第(だい)する • (rakudai suru) suru (stem 落(らく)第(だい)し (rakudai shi), past 落(らく)第(だい)した (rakudai shita))

  1. to fail an examination or test
  2. to fail to advance to the next grade or graduate from school

Conjugation
Conjugation of "落第する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 落第し らくだいし rakudai shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 落第し らくだいし rakudai shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 落第する らくだいする rakudai suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 落第する らくだいする rakudai suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 落第すれ らくだいすれ rakudai sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 落第せよ¹
落第しろ²		 らくだいせよ¹
らくだいしろ²		 rakudai seyo¹
rakudai shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 落第される らくだいされる rakudai sareru
Causative 落第させる
落第さす		 らくだいさせる
らくだいさす		 rakudai saseru
rakudai sasu
Potential 落第できる らくだいできる rakudai dekiru
Volitional 落第しよう らくだいしよう rakudai shiyō
Negative 落第しない らくだいしない rakudai shinai
Negative continuative 落第せず らくだいせず rakudai sezu
Formal 落第します らくだいします rakudai shimasu
Perfective 落第した らくだいした rakudai shita
Conjunctive 落第して らくだいして rakudai shite
Hypothetical conditional 落第すれば らくだいすれば rakudai sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

Antonyms

Derived terms
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