きれる

切 れる

Common word

  1. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to break, to snap, to be cut, to split, to crack

    • 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. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to be injured

  3. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to wear out, to be worn out

  4. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to break, to burst, to collapse

  5. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to wear off, to stop working, to go dead

  6. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

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

  7. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

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

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

  8. Ichidan verb, 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. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to cut well, to be sharp

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

  10. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

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

  11. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

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

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

  12. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to dry off

  13. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to curve, to veer

  14. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

    to shuffle (cards)

  15. Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

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

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

  16. auxiliary verb, Ichidan verb

    to be able to do completely
    after the -masu stem of a verb
    word usually written using kana alone

    • 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.