〜きり

only / since (and no more)

Two uses: "only" or "just" (a limit), and "since then, nothing more".

Readings

How to form it

After a number or noun, it means "only": 二人(ふたり)きり (just the two of us), 一度(いちど)きり (only once).
After the た-form, with a negative after it, it means nothing has happened since: 会(あ)ったきり、連絡(れんらく)がない (I haven't heard from him since we met).
In conversation it is often っきり: 二人(ふたり)っきり.

二人(ふたり)きりで話(はな)したい。

I want to talk, just the two of us.

昨日(きのう)彼(かれ)に会(あ)ったきり、連絡(れんらく)がない。

I haven't heard from him since I saw him yesterday.

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.

ReadListenWriteSpeak

Read it, then say what it means.

昨日(きのう)彼(かれ)に会(あ)ったきり、連絡(れんらく)がない。

Check

I haven't heard from him since I saw him yesterday.

Listen, then say what you heard.

Check

昨日(きのう)彼(かれ)に会(あ)ったきり、連絡(れんらく)がない。

I haven't heard from him since I saw him yesterday.

Write it in Japanese.

I haven't heard from him since I saw him yesterday.

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昨日(きのう)彼(かれ)に会(あ)ったきり、連絡(れんらく)がない。

Say it aloud in Japanese.

I haven't heard from him since I saw him yesterday.

Show an answer

昨日(きのう)彼(かれ)に会(あ)ったきり、連絡(れんらく)がない。

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