切れる · ichidan verb
| Form | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 切れる | 切れない |
| Polite | 切れます | 切れません |
| Past polite | 切れました | 切れませんでした |
| Past | 切れた | 切れなかった |
| Te-form | 切れて | 切れないで |
| Desire | 切れたい | 切れたくない |
| Potential | 切れられるalso 切れれる | 切れられないalso 切れれない |
| Passive | 切れられる | 切れられない |
| Causative | 切れさせる | 切れさせない |
| Causative passive | 切れさせられる | 切れさせられない |
| Volitional | 切れよう | |
| Polite volitional | 切れましょう | |
| Imperative | 切れろ | 切れるな |
| Conditional | 切れれば | 切れなければ |
| Tara conditional | 切れたら | 切れなかったら |
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
break; snap; be cut; burst or give way
Intransitive physical separation or rupture: a string snaps, something is cut through, a surface splits, or a bank, dam, or similar structure gives way.
強く引っぱったら、ひもが切れた。
When I pulled hard, the string snapped.
The embankment gave way in the heavy rain.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
be cut; be injured
Used when skin, lips, or another body part is cut or split open; the injured body part is normally the subject.
When I fell, my lip got cut.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
wear out; be worn through
Describes cloth, shoes, paper, or similar materials becoming worn through, frayed, or torn from use.
The heels of the socks I had worn for a long time started to wear through.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
wear off; stop working; go dead
Used when an effect, power supply, signal, or mechanism ceases: medicine wears off, a battery dies, or a device stops functioning.
By evening, the medicine's effect had begun to wear off.
My phone battery died on the way.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
Used for time limits, validity periods, contracts, tickets, payment deadlines, and similar limits reaching their end.
My passport expired last year.
Please make the transfer before the payment deadline passes.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
run out; be used up; be sold out
Used when supplies, stock, ingredients, money, patience, or similar resources are exhausted; 在庫が切れる is the standard stock phrase.
We've run out of milk, so I'll buy some on the way home.
That item ran out of stock in the morning.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
be cut off; be disconnected; break off ties
Covers both literal disconnection, such as a phone call being cut off, and figurative severing of relationships or ties, as in 縁が切れる.
The phone call got disconnected when we entered the tunnel.
After that incident, my ties with him were severed.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
cut well; be sharp
Said of knives, scissors, blades, and similar tools whose edge cuts effectively; often appears as よく切れる.
This kitchen knife cuts well.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
be sharp-minded; be quick-witted; be able
Figurative use for a person who thinks quickly and acts shrewdly; common in the phrase 頭が切れる.
She is sharp-minded, so she was put in charge of the negotiations.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
fall below; be short of; beat a time
Used with a numerical benchmark, especially in potential-like contexts meaning to get below a figure or beat a target time; the benchmark may be marked with を.
At this pace, I may be able to break three hours in the full marathon.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
dry off; drain off
Often used as 水気が切れる, meaning that excess water drains away or a surface becomes free of moisture.
Put the vegetables in a colander and wait until the water drains off.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
curve; veer
Used for a ball, vehicle path, or similar motion curving away to one side; common in sports descriptions.
The batted ball curved to the right and went foul.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
get angry; snap; lose one's temper
Colloquial use, often written キレる, for suddenly losing one's temper or exploding in anger.
See also: キレる
After being told the same thing over and over, he suddenly snapped.
auxiliary verb, ichidan verb
be able to do completely
Auxiliary verb after the masu-stem of another verb, usually written in kana. It means to be able to finish something completely or carry it through to the end.
If it's this amount, I can finish eating it by myself.
It was difficult, and I couldn't read it through to the end.
ichidan verb, intransitive verb
shuffle cards
Limited use with cards, especially トランプ. In ordinary modern wording it often appears in ability-style sentences such as トランプが切れる or トランプを切れる.
I still can't shuffle cards well with one hand.
My shoelace snapped.
This knife cuts really well.
He snapped at the store clerk over something trivial.
He might break under 10 seconds for the first time.
I can finish eating this amount by myself.
怒る is the plain, general verb for getting angry, while 切れる (often written キレる) implies a sudden, uncontrolled outburst.
割る and 切れる can both describe a figure dropping below a benchmark, but 割る is used transitively of the thing crossing the line while 切れる frames it as happening on its own.
切れる is a broad intransitive verb for cutting, breaking, or running out, while 途切れる is used specifically when a continuous flow like sound or conversation gets interrupted.
切れる is the everyday word for running out of something (like milk or paper), while 出切る is a more formal or literary way of saying a supply has been entirely exhausted.
切れる is used specifically when a stock or supply runs out completely (e.g. 電池が切れる), while 無くなる is a broader word for anything becoming zero or gone.
out of stock; sold out
expired; past the deadline; overdue
sharpness; cutting ability · incisiveness; quickness of wit; skill · peppiness (of a ball)
time running out; being out of time; deadline having passed · time-out; loss or stoppage when time expires
gap; break; rift · pause; interval; interruption · cut; incision; notch; score · end; breaking point
shortness of breath; panting; puffing · running out of steam; losing momentum; loss of efficiency
piece of paper; slip of paper; scrap of paper
break off; be interrupted; come to an end
blowing one's top; losing it; flipping out
be divisible; divide evenly · be fully convinced; be completely satisfied
small pieces; fragments · chopped meat; meat scraps
texture when biting; crispness; chewiness · clarity of speech; articulation
be filled to bursting; be about to burst
fragment; scrap; cut-off piece
be sold out; sell out
unable to finish; cannot complete · unbearable; intolerable; too much to take
sharp person; clever and capable person
cut; notch; incision
fall of the curtain; end of an act · end; close; conclusion
long, narrow eyes; slit-like eyes
be torn off; come off; break off · be torn to pieces; be torn to shreds
be accidentally visible; appear in frame unintentionally · be partly cut off; be partly in the frame
wear out; become threadbare
interval; break; rift (in clouds)
cut off at the end; abrupt ending
pass away; breathe one's last; die
swing past the maximum; go off the scale