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難い (かたい, katai) Japanese meaning: difficult | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 2,000 Conjugation 難い · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 難かた い 難かた くない Polite 難かた いです 難かた くないです also 難かた くありません Past polite 難かた かったです 難かた くなかったです also 難かた くありませんでした Past 難かた かった 難かた くなかった Te-form 難かた くて 難かた くなくて Adverbial 難かた く Conditional 難かた ければ 難かた くなければ Tara conditional 難かた かったら 難かた くなかったら
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そう
像ぞう
に
難かた
く
ない
。
It is not hard to imagine how frustrated she must have been.
Expressions に 難かた くない not hard to ...; it is easy to imagine/understand that ... 孤こ 掌しょう 鳴な らし 難がた し one cannot live solely by oneself; one cannot accomplish anything solely by oneself Kanji 難 difficult, impossible, trouble Related words 難い is a formal, literary adjective for 'difficult' found mainly in set expressions, while 難しい is the ordinary modern word used in everyday speech.
困難 is a formal noun/な-adjective meaning 'difficulty' used in administrative or abstract contexts, while 難い is a literary い-adjective mostly confined to set phrases.
Don't confuse with 固い is a homophone meaning physically or figuratively 'hard/firm', while 難い (also read かたい) means 'difficult' and is written with a different kanji.
難い read かたい is a plain adjective meaning 'difficult/hard', whereas 難い read がたい is a suffix attached to a verb stem meaning 'hard to do'.
Word family· 15 grateful; thankful; appreciated
value; worth; preciousness; blessing
unbearable; intolerable; unendurable
feel grateful; show gratitude; be thankful
Etymology The spelling uses 難, the kanji associated with difficulty. This distinguishes the “difficult” sense of かたい from homophonous spellings such as 固い, 硬い, and 堅い; no historical derivation is specified.
度ど し 難がた い
beyond help; incorrigible; irredeemable
Show 10 more hard to get; hard to come by; rare; precious
difficult; hard
value; preciousness; blessing
difficulty; trouble
fault-finding; nitpicking; complaining
hard to reach; difficult to attain
what a blessing; how fortunate; thank goodness
difficult to solve; intractable
easy to ...; not difficult to ...
hard to refuse; unable to decline
