"言い難い" meaning in Japanese

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Adjective

Head templates: {{ja-adj|い.いがたい|infl=i}} 言(い)い難(がた)い • (iigatai) -i (adverbial 言(い)い難(がた)く (iigataku)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=い.いがた|lemma=言い難|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: 言い難い [canonical] (ruby: (), (がた)), iigatai [romanization], 言い難く [adverbial] (ruby: (), (がた)), no-table-tags [table-tags], 言い難かろ [imperfective, stem], いいがたかろ [imperfective, stem], iigatakaro [imperfective], 言い難く [continuative, stem], いいがたく [continuative, stem], iigataku [continuative], 言い難い [stem, terminative], いいがたい [stem, terminative], iigatai [terminative], 言い難い [attributive, stem], いいがたい [attributive, stem], iigatai [attributive], 言い難けれ [hypothetical, stem], いいがたけれ [hypothetical, stem], iigatakere [hypothetical], 言い難かれ [imperative, stem], いいがたかれ [imperative, stem], iigatakare [imperative], 言い難くない [informal, negative], いいがたくない [informal, negative], iigataku nai [informal, negative], 言い難かった [informal, past], いいがたかった [informal, past], iigatakatta [informal, past], 言い難くなかった [informal, negative, past], いいがたくなかった [informal, negative, past], iigataku nakatta [informal, negative, past], 言い難いです [formal], いいがたいです [formal], iigatai desu [formal], 言い難くないです [formal, negative], いいがたくないです [formal, negative], iigataku nai desu [formal, negative], 言い難かったです [formal, past], いいがたかったです [formal, past], iigatakatta desu [formal, past], 言い難くなかったです [formal, negative, past], いいがたくなかったです [formal, negative, past], iigataku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], 言い難くて [conjunctive], いいがたくて [conjunctive], iigatakute [conjunctive], 言い難ければ [conditional], いいがたければ [conditional], iigatakereba [conditional], 言い難かったら [conditional, past], いいがたかったら [conditional, past], iigatakattara [conditional, past], 言い難かろう [volitional], いいがたかろう [volitional], iigatakarō [volitional], 言い難く [adverbial], いいがたく [adverbial], iigataku [adverbial], 言い難さ [noun-from-adj], いいがたさ [noun-from-adj], iigatasa [noun-from-adj]
  1. hard to say, inexpressible, hesitant to say

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "言い難い",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "言",
          "い"
        ],
        [
          "難",
          "がた"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難く",
      "roman": "iigataku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "言",
          "い"
        ],
        [
          "難",
          "がた"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難い",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難い",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難けれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難いです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難ければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難さ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "い.いがたい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "言(い)い難(がた)い • (iigatai) -i (adverbial 言(い)い難(がた)く (iigataku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "い.いがた",
        "lemma": "言い難",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hard to say, inexpressible, hesitant to say"
      ],
      "id": "en-言い難い-ja-adj-TgDpQmxD",
      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "inexpressible",
          "inexpressible"
        ],
        [
          "hesitant",
          "hesitant"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "言い難い"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "言い難い",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "言",
          "い"
        ],
        [
          "難",
          "がた"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難く",
      "roman": "iigataku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "言",
          "い"
        ],
        [
          "難",
          "がた"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難い",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難い",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難けれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難いです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難くて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難ければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難かろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatakarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigataku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "言い難さ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "いいがたさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "iigatasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "い.いがたい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "言(い)い難(がた)い • (iigatai) -i (adverbial 言(い)い難(がた)く (iigataku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "い.いがた",
        "lemma": "言い難",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese adjectives",
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms written with two Han script characters",
        "Japanese い-i adjectives"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hard to say, inexpressible, hesitant to say"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ],
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "inexpressible",
          "inexpressible"
        ],
        [
          "hesitant",
          "hesitant"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "言い難い"
}
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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "言い難い",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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