〜きれない

can't…all

"Can't do it all" or "too much to…": there is more than can be finished, held or expressed.

Readings

How to form it

Start from the ます form and replace ます with きれない: 食(た)べます becomes 食(た)べきれない.
It is the negative potential of 〜きる. The positive exists too: 食(た)べきれる (can eat it all).

多(おお)すぎて、食(た)べきれない。

There's too much — I can't eat it all.

感謝(かんしゃ)してもしきれない。

I can't thank you enough.

With counting and feelings it means "countless" or "can't…enough": 数(かぞ)えきれない (countless).

How it comes back in Isori

One sentence, four ways to recall it. Isori writes sentences like this from the grammar you’re on and the words due that day.

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Read it, then say what it means.

感謝(かんしゃ)してもしきれない。

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I can't thank you enough.

Listen, then say what you heard.

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感謝(かんしゃ)してもしきれない。

I can't thank you enough.

Write it in Japanese.

I can't thank you enough.

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感謝(かんしゃ)してもしきれない。

Say it aloud in Japanese.

I can't thank you enough.

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感謝(かんしゃ)してもしきれない。

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