Third context sentence for 切れる uses the potential for 切る, instead

[Saida]

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?

[zEUs_Japanese]

You could ask them via the messenger option.

[Saida]

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.

[brkrkmz]

Potential form of 切る?

[Saida]

yes, that’s also 切れる.

[brkrkmz]

I guess they just used a wrong context sentence

[Saida]

That’s why I’m giving feedback…

[brkrkmz]

I thought you didn’t get the sentence, sorry

[TheFlaminMunch]

@Saida

This knife snaps often???

Ugh I hate it when I’m peeling potatoes and my knife snaps in two

[Leebo]

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).

[Saida]

Thanks, that sounds logical.

@Leebo

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).

You could also potentially say 入れられる, right?

[Leebo]

If you mean いれられる, then you could potentially say that, changing the verb and making it passive.