割る
わる
hepburn waru
to break, to split, to divide (transitive)
Part of speech · godan-verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 皿を落として割ってしまいました。I dropped the plate and broke it.
- 十を二で割ると五になります。Ten divided by two is five.
Collocations
皿を割るたまごを割る二で割る人数で割る頭を割る
Mnemonic
割る waru — from 割 (to divide, to split), which contains the knife radical 刂: to split or break with a blade, also to divide. It is transitive; its intransitive partner is 割れる (wareru, to break). 皿を割る (to break a plate) is transitive, 皿が割れる (a plate breaks) is intransitive. In arithmetic it means "to divide (÷)."
Quick check
What is the difference between 皿を割る and 皿が割れる?