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Ok, so I've been having trouble with a passage. It's mostly written in kana,
and I can get most of it, but because of the kana, I have no idea what a
certain word is. At the beginning of the music video for the Gorillaz music
video for [Clint Eastwood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYw49saqc), it
says a line from _Dawn of the Dead_ in Japanese and then in English. Here it
is:

> すべての死体は死にきれているわけではない。人々はそれらを殺し、そしてまた起きあがって殺す。

In English, of course, it is:

> _Every dead body that is not exterminated gets up and kills! The people it
> kills get up and kill!_

Of course, I understand the general meaning of the Japanese version, because I
have a translation. The last part is easy:

> 人々はそれらを殺し、そしてまた起きあがって殺す。 _When people kill them, they get up again and
> kill._

But the first part I don't understand. I know すべての死体は, and I know 訳ではない, but
since it's written in kana, I can't tell at all which きれて is being used. Is it
the 〜て form of 切れる? Is it the potential form of 切る? I don't know why you'd be
cutting them, and I don't think it's 着れる (because zombies don't spend much
time picking out clothes). Secondarily, I'm unsure of the use of 死に here. Is
it being きれて'd _towards_ death, or is it 死に as in the other word for death?
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translation kanji verbs kana parsing
Kana causing translation difficulty: 「きれている」
切れる【きれる】 can be used as a suffix to indicate an end to something. In this
case, it's appended to 死に to form 死に切れる, which indicates that something ends
when it dies.
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In this context, きれる does not mean "to be cut", but rather attaches to the 連用形
(-i form) of a verb and means "to be able to completely [verb]". cf. the EDICT
entry for 切れる:

> (suf,v1) (16) to be able to do completely

When used in this sense, きれる is typically written in kana rather than as 切れる.

So, we have 死にきれる (that's the verb 死ぬ, not the noun 死 + particle に) = "to be
able to die completely" or, more or less equivalently, "to be completely
dead", which maps onto "to be exterminated" pretty well.
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