Illustration: In a compact apartment kitchen, a person preparing dinner tips a transparent rice-storage container over the rice cooker’s empty inner pot. Only a single grain falls out. They peer into the container with raised eyebrows while holding the empty measuring cup in their other hand.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

切きらす

kirasu

to run out of

Example sentences

  1. ミルクを切きらしてるの。

    I’ve run out of milk.

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  2. コピー用紙ようしを切きらしてしまった。

    We’ve run out of paper for the photocopier.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. あら砂糖さとうを切きらしているわ。

    Ah, we have run short of sugar.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 切

  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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