guzai wo kiru.

具材 is read ぐざい and 切る is read きる.

So the full sentence is read:

ぐざい を きる。

具材 means the ingredients or fillings/materials used in a dish.

It is often used for the parts that go into cooking, such as vegetables, meat, mushrooms, tofu, and so on. Compared with 材料, which can mean materials/ingredients more generally, 具材 often feels more like the actual food components in the dish.

For example:

• スープの具材 = the ingredients in a soup
• 鍋の具材 = the ingredients for hot pot

を marks the direct object of the verb.

In 具材 を 切る, the thing being cut is 具材, so it takes を.

You can think of it like:

• 具材 = ingredients
• を = marks what receives the action
• 切る = cut

So を shows that the action of cutting is being done to the ingredients.

Japanese basic sentence order is usually Subject - Object - Verb, so the verb often comes at the end.

That is why:

• 具材 comes first
• を marks it as the object
• 切る comes last as the action

This is normal Japanese word order.

Japanese often leaves out the subject when it is obvious from context.

So 具材 を 切る。 could mean:

• I cut the ingredients
• You cut the ingredients
• Cut the ingredients
• Someone cuts the ingredients

The exact subject depends on the situation. In things like recipes, instructions, or short notes, omitting the subject is very common.

切る is the dictionary form plain style of the verb.

This form is often used in:

• recipe steps
• titles
• captions
• casual writing
• lists of actions

In a more polite sentence, you could say:

具材を切ります。

In a recipe, 具材を切る。 sounds natural because recipe instructions often use plain form and short, simple sentences.

切る is a broad verb meaning to cut. Depending on context, it can be translated as:

• cut
• slice
• chop

Japanese often uses 切る even when English would choose a more specific verb. If the method matters, Japanese may use other expressions, such as:

• 薄く切る = cut thinly / slice thin
• 細かく切る = chop finely
• 半分に切る = cut in half

So by itself, 切る just tells you that something is being cut.

Usually, no. Standard Japanese is normally written without spaces:

具材を切る。

Spaces are often added only in beginner materials to make the sentence easier to read:

• 具材　を　切る。

So the spaced version is for learning, not the usual way it appears in native Japanese text.

Yes. It is short, but it is natural, especially in contexts like:

• recipe instructions
• cooking class notes
• simple action descriptions

For example, in a recipe you might see a sequence like:

• 野菜を洗う。
• 具材を切る。
• 鍋に入れる。

Short plain-form sentences like this are very common in instructional Japanese.

切る is a godan verb.

Even though it ends in -る, it does not conjugate like an ichidan verb such as 食べる.

For example:

• dictionary form: 切る
• polite form: 切ります
• negative: 切らない
• past: 切った
• te-form: 切って

This is worth remembering, because not every -る verb is an ichidan verb.

Yes. The grammar pattern stays the same:

noun + を + 切る

For example:

• 野菜を切る。 = cut vegetables
• 肉を切る。 = cut meat
• 玉ねぎを切る。 = cut an onion
• パンを切る。 = cut bread

So 具材を切る is one example of a very common Japanese pattern.