にくい
Meanings
Adjective (い)
Suffix
Usually written in kana
1. difficult to ...; hard to ...
after the -masu stem of a verb
It is a difficult opponent to fight.
Pitch accent
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Top 1500
Used in vocabulary (24 in total)
hard-to-do; difficult; tough; awkward; tricky
hard to do
difficult to approach; inaccessible
Examples (51 in total)
It's hard to say.
It's hard to believe.
It is a difficult opponent to fight.
That's hard to say.
It is hard to convince Jack.
It's hard to communicate.
Their identity will probably be hard to look into, too.
The distance is hard to estimate.
French is hard to read.
Plastic does not break easily.
I have difficulty urinating.
Greek is hard to learn.
Is it hard to learn Esperanto?
Your question is hard to answer.
The medicine is hard to swallow.
He is thought to be difficult to deal with.
This machine is hard to operate.
It is difficult to pinpoint the location of the voice.
It's hard to wrap a bandage by yourself, isn't it?
It is difficult to handle, but it is useful if you can master it.
This word is difficult to pronounce.
She is a difficult person to deal with.
This translation is difficult to read.
Tom is a hard man to deal with.
Russian is very difficult to learn.
This font is hard to read.
The reason which he gave is hard to understand.
Your question is hard for me to answer.
It was handwriting that was hard to read, like a child's.
The taller a tree is, the harder it is to climb.
Luckily, I've got the kind of personality people find hard to dislike.
It's hard to stay calm in a situation like that.
It is hard for foreigners to learn Japanese.
The vacuum cleaner's cord is short, so it's hard to use.
It is not that it does not work, but rather that it just becomes harder to work.
Isn't it hard to remember the streets in Kyoto?
That's because there was something I found a little hard to bring up.
The clothes are sticking to me because they have absorbed water, making it difficult to move.
This board has a lot of knots, so it's hard to use.
With a barbed hook, the fish is less likely to come off.
The thick fog made it hard to see the road.
He is rather hard to get along with.
It was something that the high school students in question found difficult to notice.
Frankly speaking, it's difficult to understand why you want to go.
I did it because I thought things that are hard to say would be easier to say to someone of the same sex.
However, this is a very complex and difficult-to-handle issue.
From a practical point of view, his plan is not easy to carry out.
If you keep skipping club activities, it becomes that much harder to get back into them.
The building is small, but its sign stands out, so I don't think it's hard to find.
Choose a password that is easy to remember but difficult to guess.
Old habits die hard. This is particularly true of politics.