No. 2,495 in Japanese
切る
"切る" means "to cut."
In a sentence
紙を切る。
(I) cut the paper.
Here, '切る' conveys the action of cutting or severing something, in this case, paper.
話を途中で切らないでください。
Please do not interrupt (cut off) the conversation midway.
In this sentence, '切る' is used metaphorically to indicate interrupting or abruptly ending something.
チケットの販売が切れてしまった。
The tickets are sold out.
'切れる', the passive form of '切る', is used here to denote that something has been exhausted or finished.
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