割れる: to break
割れる wareru
to break; to be smashed; to split
JLPT N4Home & daily life
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Example sentences
黒曜石は、ガラスのように鋭く割れる石で、矢じりや刃物に大切でした。
Obsidian is a stone that breaks sharply like glass, and it was important for arrowheads and blades.
From the lesson 石や骨の道具
兄弟たちは、また、割れた木にはさんで殺しましたが、母が助けて逃がし、オオヤビコという神が、「根の堅州国のスサノオのところへ行きなさい」と言いました。
The brothers killed him again by trapping him in a split tree, but his mother saved him and helped him flee, and a god called Ōyabiko told him, “Go to Susanoo in the Land of Roots.”
From the lesson 大国主の試練と根の国