切れる：To be cut, to snap, to break.
この小刀はよく切れる。
This knife cuts well./This knife snaps often???
Or is there something I’m missing?
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You could ask them via the messenger option.
Not live at the moment. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Oh wait, it is. Just didn’t notice it. 
But as I figured, no one is in the office at this time, so I’ll get a response by email.
Potential form of 切る?
yes, that’s also 切れる.
I guess they just used a wrong context sentence 
That’s why I’m giving feedback…
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I thought you didn’t get the sentence, sorry 
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Ugh I hate it when I’m peeling potatoes and my knife snaps in two
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Monolingual definition for 切れる (not 切る or a potential version of it)
I cut it off at #14, since that’s the relevant one.
https://www.weblio.jp/content/切れる
In this regard, it’s considered just another definition of the same word.
One reason you can be fairly sure it’s not the potential of 切る, is because a knife is inanimate, and generally speaking inanimate objects don’t get potential like that.
For instance, you don’t say that a big sofa “can enter a room” using potential 入れる (はいれる). You would just say 入る (はいる).
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Thanks, that sounds logical.
You could also potentially say 入れられる, right?
If you mean いれられる, then you could potentially say that, changing the verb and making it passive.
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