れる
kireru

Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
二人 ふたり子供 こども つな れるまで りあった。
futarino kodomowa tsunaga kirerumade hippariatta.
The two children pulled at the rope until it broke.
Ichidan Verb

2. to be injured

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

3. to wear out; to be worn out

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

4. to break; to burst; to collapse

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

5. to wear off; to stop working; to go dead

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
ガソリンが れかかっている。
gasoringa kirekakatte iru.
We're running out of gas.
Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

9. to cut well; to be sharp

Intransitive
このはさみは れない。
kono hasamiwa yokukirenai.
These scissors don't cut well.
Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
いち れい れいメートル、1 いち れい びょう れる?
hyakumētorujūbyō kireru
Will they break the ten-second mark in the hundred-metre race?
Ichidan Verb

12. to dry off

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

13. to curve; to veer

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

14. to shuffle (cards)

Intransitive
Ichidan Verb

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

Intransitive
Colloquial
Related to キレる
あいつは、とうとう れた。
aitsuwa tōtō kireta.
Finally, he lost his temper.
Ichidan Verb
Auxiliary Verb

16. to be able to do completely

Usually Written in Kana
この こうり うすすぎて きみ からだ ささえきれないだろう。
kono kōriwa ususugite kimino karadao sasaekirenaidarō.
This ice is too thin to bear your weight.