たやすい

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 50,000

たやすい · i-adjective

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	たやすい	たやすくない
Polite	たやすいです	たやすくないですalso たやすくありません
Past polite	たやすかったです	たやすくなかったですalso たやすくありませんでした
Past	たやすかった	たやすくなかった
Te-form	たやすくて	たやすくなくて
Adverbial	たやすく
Conditional	たやすければ	たやすくなければ
Tara conditional	たやすかったら	たやすくなかったら

Meanings

usually written using kana alone

Describes a task, problem, or situation that is easy to handle or accomplish. Often implies something is not difficult or burdensome.

〈事こと〉はたやすいことではないit is no easy task to do ~
大たい企き業ぎょうに勝かつのはたやすいことではない。
Beating a big corporation is no easy task.
〈動どう詞し〉のはたやすいがit's easy to say/do ~, but...
言いうのはたやすいが、実じっ行こうするのは難むずかしい。
It's easy to say, but hard to actually carry out.

簡かん単たんN5
簡単 is the everyday, neutral word for 'easy' or 'simple', while たやすい is a more literary word emphasizing that something takes little effort.
易やさしいN5
易しい is the common, general adjective for 'easy' (e.g. an easy exam), while たやすい is a slightly more formal or emphatic way to say something is effortless.
軽かるいN5
容易い is a more literary word emphasizing that something requires little effort, while 軽い is the everyday word that can also mean physically light.

難むずかしいN5
難しい means 'difficult', the direct opposite of たやすい's 'easy, effortless'.

容よう易いN3
容易 is a na-adjective/noun meaning 'easy' written with the same kanji as たやすい's 容易い, but they take different grammatical forms and can't be swapped directly.
やすいN1
容易い (たやすい) shares the kanji 易 and a similar meaning of 'easy' but is a stronger, more emphatic word for something requiring almost no effort, unlike the plainer 易い.

たやすいUsage87%
Usually written in kana; the kanji spelling 容易い is also common but less frequent.
容易たやすいUsage12%
Kanji spelling; still widely understood but less common than kana.
た易やすいUsage1%
search-only kanji form
Search-only kanji form; not a standard spelling.

Derived from the adjective root たやす- (easily done) with the classical adjective ending し. The kanji 容易 is a semantic compound meaning 'easy'.