~難い

~がたい · ~gatai · JLPT N2 · noun

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🪨 gatai = katai (hard) with a voiced g: verb stem + gatai = hard to do

難 means difficult, as in 困難 (konnan, hardship). As a suffix, katai becomes gatai: 信じ難い (shinjigatai) means hard to believe. It is used for things that are hard emotionally or morally, not hard physically.

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