Illustration: In a compact home kitchen, a cook draws a kitchen knife lightly through a very ripe tomato. One almost translucent slice has just fallen away, joining two equally thin, clean slices on the board. The tomato retains its round shape, with no crushed flesh or puddle of squeezed juice.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

切きれる

kireru

to cut well, to be sharp

Used of blades and cutting tools. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. このはさみは良よく切きれない。

    These scissors don’t cut well.

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  2. このはさみは、よく切きれる。

    These scissors cut well.

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  3. 気きをつけてね、このナイフよく切きれるから。

    Be careful. This knife is really sharp.

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Kanji in 切

  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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