陥落|かんらくkanraku[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbsubsidence; sinking; cave-in; collapse; falling in
  2. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbfall (of a city, fortress, etc.); surrender
    パリは1940年ねんに陥落かんらくした。↗
    Paris fell in 1940.
  3. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbfall (in position, rank, etc.); demotion
  4. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbgiving in (to someone's persuasion); yielding; being convinced
Conjugation
Dictionary form陥落する(かんらくする)
Polite (masu)陥落します(かんらくします)
Negative (nai)陥落しない(かんらくしない)
polite (masen)陥落しません(かんらくしません)
classical zu / nu陥落せず・陥落せぬ(かんらくせず・かんらくせぬ)
Past (ta)陥落した(かんらくした)
polite (mashita)陥落しました(かんらくしました)
Past negative (nakatta)陥落しなかった(かんらくしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)陥落しませんでした(かんらくしませんでした)
Te form陥落して(かんらくして)
Potential陥落できる(かんらくできる)
Passive陥落される(かんらくされる)
Causative陥落させる(かんらくさせる)
Causative passive陥落させられる(かんらくさせられる)
Conditional (ba)陥落すれば(かんらくすれば)
tara陥落したら(かんらくしたら)
Volitional陥落しよう(かんらくしよう)
polite (mashou)陥落しましょう(かんらくしましょう)
Imperative陥落しろ(かんらくしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym陥没かんぼつNeutralNeutral word for ground or a surface caving in and sinking, as with a road; it stresses the sinking itself, not a city or rank falling.
  • Related崩落ほうらくWrittenFormal, written word for rock or ice breaking off and crashing down; 「陥落」 instead covers cities falling, rank drops, or being talked into something.
  • Related崩壊ほうかいNeutralNeutral, broad word for buildings or institutions collapsing; unlike 「陥落」 it also covers abstract systems and organizations breaking down.
  • Related倒壊とうかいNeutralNeutral word for a building toppling and being crushed; the focus is the physical fall of a structure, not a city taken or a rank lost.
  • Related崩れくずれNeutralNeutral word for crumbling or collapse, and for things losing their expected form, as in 「天気の崩れ」.
  • Antonym奪還だっかんWrittenFormal, written word for recapturing or taking something back; the counterpart to a city's 「陥落」.

「陥落」 covers a city or fortress falling, dropping from a rank as in 「首位から陥落」, and finally being persuaded. For sinking ground use 「陥没」, for a building toppling 「倒壊」, for a system collapsing 「崩壊」; 「奪還」 is its opposite: taking back what was lost.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 落ち込おちこむこと。陥入かんにゅう。陥没かんぼつ。
  2. 城しろや都市としが攻め落せめおとされること。
  3. 今いままで保たもっていた地位ちいや順位じゅんいが下さがること。
  4. 説得せっとくなどを受うけ相手あいての意いのままになること。また、自白じはくに転てんじるなどすること。
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