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No. 2,544 in Japanese

売り切れる

"売り切れる" means "to be sold out."

In a sentence

  • 人気のケーキはすぐに売り切れる。

    The popular cake sells out quickly.

    Here, '売り切れる' is used to indicate that an item becomes sold out due to high demand.

  • 昨日のコンサートチケットはすべて売り切れました。

    All concert tickets for yesterday's event were sold out.

    In this sentence, '売り切れる' is used in the past tense, showing completion of the action of selling all items.

  • この商品は毎年のクリスマスシーズンに必ず売り切れる。

    This product inevitably sells out every Christmas season.

    Here, '売り切れる' describes a recurring event where an item becomes sold out routinely during a specific time frame.

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