割れる
われる
Also written 破れる
Meanings
- Ichidan verb, Intransitive 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
Kanji
- 割 divide. Read as われる.
Example sentences
- 君の重さじゃ氷が割れるよ。
The ice will give under your weight. - 議長は意見が割れるかも知れないという可能性を除外しはしなかった。
The chairman did not rule out the possibility of a disagreement. - 割れたガラスを踏むな。
Don't step on the broken glass. - 海の氷はきわめて変わりやすい——寒く風のない天候のときは固く凍っているが、嵐のときは外洋の広い水域で割れてしまう。
The sea ice is highly variable - frozen solid during cold, calm weather and broken up in large areas of open water during storms. - 花瓶が粉々に割れた。
The vase was broken to pieces.
Common phrases
- ガラスが割れる
- 意見が割れる
- 二つに割れる
- 窓が割れる
- 爪が割れる
- 縦に割れる
- 票が割れる
- 氷が割れる
- 風船が割れる
- 粉々に割れる
- 卵が割れる
- 賛否が割れる
- 身元が割れる
- 衝撃で割れる
- 割れた卵 (われたたまご) broken egg
Related forms
- 割る (わる) to break (transitive partner)
Words containing 割れる
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