Japanese Dictionary
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- Reading and JLPT level
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切れる
JLPT 3 - Kana Reading
- きれる
- Romaji
- kireru
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- Meaning
- to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
- Example sentence
- クラッチペダルを数回踏むと、なんとかクラッチが切れたので、騙し騙し運転しました。 Repeatedly slamming the clutch pedal, I somehow managed to get the clutch disengaged so I could just about drive for the time being.
Examples of 切れる, きれる in a sentence
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The button battery in the PC's internal timer has gone flat
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え?トナーが切れてるんですか?仕方ないですね。加藤さん、すみませんが職員室に取りに行って下さい。
Eh? Have we run out of toner? Oh well, sorry, but can you go the staff-room and get some, Katou?
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「どーした、もじもじして」「あーいや、何かパンツのゴム切れちゃったみたいで」
What's up? Fidgeting like that "Er, well, it looks like the elastic's gone in my pants."
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免許証の有効期間が切れてしまった場合は次の方法で新たな免許証の交付を受けることができる。
If your licence exceeds its validity period then you can be issued with a new licence in the following way.
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Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.
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基本はアスカがシンジをいじめる。で、たまにキレたシンジがアスカを襲う。その時のアスカはやけにしおらしい。
The key is that Asuka abuses Shinji. So, rarely, Shinji flips and assaults Asuka. Then Asuka is surprisingly meek.
Verb Conjugations
Non-Past
- Plain
- 切れる
- Plain Polite
- 切れます
- Negative
- 切れない
- Negative Polite
- 切れません
Past
- Plain
- 切れた
- Plain Polite
- 切れました
- Negative
- 切れなかった
- Negative Polite
- 切れませんでした
Te
- Plain
- 切れて
- Plain Polite
- 切れまして
- Negative
- --
- Negative Polite
- --
Passive
- Plain
- 切れられる
- Plain Polite
- 切れられます
- Negative
- 切れられない
- Negative Polite
- 切れられません
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