Meaning of 切れる(きれる) in Japanese

Reading and JLPT level 切れる JLPT 3

Kana Reading きれる

Romaji kireru

Parts of speech

Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

Meaning

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

Example sentence

PC 内部のタイマー用ボタン電池が切れた。 The button battery in the PC's internal timer has gone flat
Parts of speech

Meaning

to be injured

Example sentence

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?
Parts of speech

Meaning

to wear out; to be worn out

Example sentence

「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."
Parts of speech

Meaning

to break; to burst; to collapse

Example sentence

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.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to wear off; to stop working; to go dead

Example sentence

戸籍上の縁は切れても、昔日の絆はそのままだ。 Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.
Parts of speech

Meaning

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

Example sentence

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.
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.
Parts of speech

Meaning

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

Example sentence

油が切れてきたぞ。 Oil is running short.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to cut well; to be sharp

Example sentence

氷は非常に薄いので君の体重を支えきれないだろう。 The ice is so thin that it won't bear your weight.
Parts of speech

Meaning

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

Example sentence

彼女は彼が帰ってくるのが待ちきれなかった。 She was impatient for him to return.
Parts of speech

Meaning

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

Example sentence

彼女は頭がキレる。 She is sharp.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to dry off

Example sentence

彼女はこらえきれず笑ってしまった。 She smiled, not being able to help it.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to curve; to veer

Example sentence

彼女の行為は言葉では誉めきれないほど立派だ。 Her behavior is above praise.
Parts of speech

Meaning

to shuffle (cards)

Example sentence

彼女が病気だと言う可能性を残念ながら捨て切れない。 I'm afraid we can't rule out the possibility that she may have the disease.
Parts of speech

Meaning

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

Example sentence

彼は彼女と結婚できるという希望を捨て切れなかった。 He was unable to completely give up on his hopes of marrying her.
Parts of speech

suffix, Ichidan verb

Meaning

to be able to do completely

Example sentence

彼は読みきれないほどたくさんの本を持っている。 He has too many books.

Examples of 切れる, きれる in a sentence

PC 内部のタイマー用ボタン電池が切れた。

The button battery in the PC's internal timer has gone flat
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?
「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."
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.
戸籍上の縁は切れても、昔日の絆はそのままだ。

Our connection may be cut on paper but the bonds of old remain as they were.
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

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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Kanji in this word

切 JLPT 4

4 strokes

cut, cutoff, be sharp

On'Yomi: セツ, サイ

Kun'Yomi: き.る, -き.る, き.り, -き.り, -ぎ.り, き.れる, -き.れる, き.れ, -き.れ, -ぎ.れ

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