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write + finish doing completely

kaki kiru

finish doing completely; do all the way through

meaning: write all the way through

この本ほん、一晩ひとばんで読みよみきる。

kono hon, hitoban de yomi kiru.

I read all the way through this book in one night. casual

量りょう多おおすぎて、正直しょうじき食たべきれなかった。

ryou oosugite, shoujiki tabekirenakatta.

Honestly, there was too much and I couldn't finish it all. casual

  • past
  • polite

Examples

finish doing completely — the action is carried all the way to its exhaustive end, nothing left over

この本ほん、一晩ひとばんで読よみ切きった。

kono hon, hitoban de yomikitta.

I read all the way through this book in one night. casual

量りょう多おおすぎて、正直しょうじき食たべきれなかった。

ryou oosugite, shoujiki tabekirenakatta.

Honestly, there was too much and I couldn't finish it all. casual

弊社へいしゃは本ほん年度ねんどの計画けいかくを予定よてい通どおりやり切きりました。

heisha wa hon nendo no keikaku o yotei doori yarikirimashita.

Our company carried this fiscal year's plan through to completion, exactly as scheduled. formal

Formation

Notes

切れない (potential negative) is the everyday form — 食べきれない, "too
much to finish." 切る is also plain "cut"; 書き切る reads only as "finish
writing," never "cut while writing," since the compound always follows a
masu-stem.

Related patterns

Similar

  • 終わる

    読み切る claims exhaustiveness — every last page, no remainder — while 読み終わる only claims the reading session reached its endpoint, however much was actually read.

  • 〜込む

    Both intensify a masu-stem verb, but 切る marks reaching the END — exhaustive, nothing left — while 込む marks going DEEP, with no completion claim at all; 読み込む can describe an ongoing close reading, 読み切る cannot.

Same meaning

finish doing; do all the way through

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終わる