Japanese word

遅れる

おくれる

In your course · Chapter 19

Part of speech: verb
Level: A2
Frequency: No. 1,196 in the course corpus

Meanings

be late (plain)
to be late
to be delayed
to fall behind schedule
to be overdue
to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.)
to lag behind
to be behind (the times)
to be bereaved of
to be preceded by (someone) in death
to be slow (of a clock or watch)

Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))

Conjugation of 遅れる →

Kanji

遅
On reading:
チ
Kun reading:
おく.らす、おく.れる、おそ.い
Meanings:
slow, late, back, later

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