Japanese grammar - Japanese Intensifiers

Intesifiers in Japanese
Japanese intensifiers


Put a Japanese verb into its extensor form, Base II, then add + any of these to make the verb easy or hard to perform:


1. yasui – easy; simple
2. tsurai – hard to deal with, handle; hardship; difficult.
3. nikui – difficult;hard


1a. add yasui to yaru
やりやすい – yariyasui  - easy to play, do


1b. add yasui to suru
しやすい – shiyasui - easy to do


1c. add yasui to taberu
食べやすい - tabeyasui – easy to eat


1d. add yasui to noru
乗りやすい - noriyasui– easy to ride


2a. add tsurai to suru
しづらい - hard to do

2b. add tsurai to yaru
やりづらい - hard to play, do

3a. add nikui to hiku
引きにくい – hikinikui - hard to play, or pull

3b. add nikui to hanasu
 話しにくい– hanashinikui - hard to speak

3c. add nikui to miru
見にくい– Minikui - hard to look at; ugly


* tsu becomes dzu or zu when compounded
or しづらい not しつらい.
dzu not tsu after the shi in shidzurai (shizurai). Yarizurai – hard to do, shitsurai or shizurai – hard to do*