► 形容詞
難い [(2)にくい] meaning: difficult rank: 1
☆ この教科書は解りにくい ⇨ This textbook is difficult to understand
☆ この蓋は子供が開けないようににわざと開け難くしてある ⇨ This lid is made intentionally difficult to open for children
☆ この車は後ろが見難い ⇨ It is hard to look what is behind in this car
☆ 聞き難い質問 ⇨ A question hard/awkward to ask
難い [(2)かたい] [liter] meaning: difficult rank: 3
☆ それは想像に難くない ⇨ It is not hard to imagine (☛ Usually used in negative as 難くない)
難い [(2)がたい] [liter] meaning: difficult rank: 3
☆ 彼のしたことはとても許し難い ⇨ What he did is difficult to forgive
☆ 本当だとは信じ難い ⇨ It’s hard to believe it’s true
More examples:
- 何とも形容し難い味 ⇨ A taste you can’t really describe
- 両者は甲乙付け難い ⇨ It is hard to say which one is better between the two
- 彼は取っ付き難い印象がある ⇨ I kind of feel he is unapproachable
- ダウンジャケットは嵩張って荷物にし難い ⇨ Down jackets are bulky and difficult to pack
- 耐え難い、耐えられない、痛み ⇨ Unbearable pain
- 東京の夏は湿度が高くて耐え難い ⇨ The summer of Tokyo is unbearable because of high humidity
- 今更如何ともし難い (いかんともしがたい) ⇨ At this point there is nothing you can do
- そうして貰えると大変有り難いんだけど ⇨ I would really appreciate it, it would be really great, if you could do that
- これが偶然とは信じ難い (しんじがたい) ⇨ It is hard to believe this is a coincidence
- 両者は優劣つけ難い ⇨ You cannot really say which one is better than the other between those two
- こんなやり方が成功するとは考え難い (がんがえにくい) ⇨ It is hard to think this kind of way would work
- 大自然の筆舌に尽くし難い美しさ (だいしぜん) ⇨ The indescribable beauty of the mother nature
- 有り難い御言葉を頂き心より御礼申し上げます ⇨ I thank you from my heart for your rare praise
- 数学は抽象的過ぎて取っ付き難い ⇨ Math is too abstract and not very approachable