折れる – Vocabulary details

折おれる

Verb (1-dan, intransitive)

1. to break; to be broken; to snap; to fracture

刀かたなが折おれてしまった。The sword broke.

2. to be folded

3. to give in; to back down; to yield; to submit

だが、それでも彼かれらの心こころはまだ折おれてはいなかった。But even so, their hearts had not yet broken.

4. to turn (a corner)

廊ろう下かの角かどを何なん度ども折おれた。I turned corner after corner in the hallway.

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to be hard (to do); to be difficult; to require much effort; to be laborious; to be backbreaking; to have trouble (doing)

to lose heart; to lose motivation

to snap; to break (under pressure)

腕うでが折おれちゃったの。

My arm is broken.

刀かたなが折おれてしまった。

The sword broke.

シャーペンの芯しんが折おれた。

The lead in my mechanical pencil broke.

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