I Love Kanji仕切る (shikiru)
仕切る (しきる, shikiru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to partition; to divide”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists.
- Reading
- しきる
- Romaji
- shikiru
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to partition; to divide; to mark off · godan verb, transitive
- to direct; to manage; to run; to organize; to take responsibility for · godan verb, transitive
- to settle accounts · godan verb, transitive
- to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout); to poise oneself for the initial charge · godan verb, intransitive
Example sentences
部長の都合が悪くなってしまったので、飲み会の日程は仕切り直しだね。
We'll have to organize the drinking party all over again as the section chief can't make it now.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 仕切る
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 仕切る | しきる shikiru |
| Polite (~masu) | 仕切ります | しきります shikirimasu |
| Negative | 仕切らない | しきらない shikiranai |
| Polite negative | 仕切りません | しきりません shikirimasen |
| Past | 仕切った | しきった shikitta |
| Polite past | 仕切りました | しきりました shikirimashita |
| Negative past | 仕切らなかった | しきらなかった shikiranakatta |
| Te-form | 仕切って | しきって shikitte |
| Potential | 仕切れる | しきれる shikireru |
| Passive | 仕切られる | しきられる shikirareru |
| Causative | 仕切らせる | しきらせる shikiraseru |
| Volitional | 仕切ろう | しきろう shikirou |
| Imperative | 仕切れ | しきれ shikire |
| Conditional (~ba) | 仕切れば | しきれば shikireba |
Kanji in 仕切る
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 仕切る.
仕事しごとwork仕方しかたway仕様しようway仕方がないしかたがないthere's no (other) way仕上がるしあがるto be finished仕上しあげfinish仕掛しかけdevice仕組しくみstructure奉仕ほうしservice仕えるつかえるto serve仕上がりしあがりfinish仕上げるしあげるto finish up仕入れるしいれるto buy (stock, materials, etc.)仕掛けるしかけるto start
Source: JMdict entry 1305180 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.