THE WORD · N4
割れる
Breaking
Verbe · Group 2 verb
瓶は粉々に割れた。
The bottle broke into pieces.
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Parts of speech
Group 2 verb (ichidan) · Intransitive
The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.
Verb group: Group 2 (ichidan)
Verb usage: intransit
English dictionary meanings
- to break
- to be smashed
- to split
- to crack
- to fissure
- to be torn
- to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.)
- to split (e.g. of a party)
- to come to light
- to become clear
- to be identified
- to be revealed
- to become distorted (of sound)
- to clip
- to be divisible (without a remainder)
- to drop below a minimum