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切れる

Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 切れる.

Dictionary

Entry

切れるIchidan verbFreq #1234
1

Intransitive verb

to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack

Examples
二人の子供は綱が切れるまで引っ張りあった。
The two children pulled at the rope until it broke.
2

Intransitive verb

to be injured

3

Intransitive verb

to wear out; to be worn out

4

Intransitive verb

to break; to burst; to collapse

5

Intransitive verb

to wear off; to stop working; to go dead

6

Intransitive verb

to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due

7

Intransitive verb

to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of

Examples
ガソリンが切れかかっている
We're running out of gas.
8

Intransitive verb

to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected

9

Intransitive verb

to cut well; to be sharp

Examples
このはさみは良く切れない
These scissors don't cut well.
10

Intransitive verb

to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able

11

Intransitive verb

to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)

Examples
100メートル、10秒切れる
Will they break the ten-second mark in the hundred-metre race?
12

Intransitive verb

to dry off

13

Intransitive verb

to curve; to veer

14

Intransitive verb

to shuffle (cards)

15

Colloquial; Intransitive verb

to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip

Examples
あいつは、とうとう切れた
Finally, he lost his temper.
16

Word usually written using kana alone; Auxiliary verb; After the -masu stem of a verb

to be able to do completely

Examples
この氷は薄すぎて君の体を支えきれないだろう。
This ice is too thin to bear your weight.

Character notes

Kanji in this Word

cut, cutoff, be sharp

4 strokesFrequency 324JLPT N3Grade 2

On

セツサイ

Kun

き.る-き.るき.り-き.り-ぎ.りき.れる-き.れるき.れ-き.れ-ぎ.れ

Nanori

きつきりぎり

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