"難しい" meaning in Japanese

See 難しい in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [mɯ̟zɨka̠ɕii]
Head templates: {{ja-adj|むずかしい|hhira=むづかしい|infl=i}} 難(むずか)しい • (muzukashii) ^(←むづかしい (mudukasii)?)-i (adverbial 難(むずか)しく (muzukashiku)) 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=むずかし|lemma=難し|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: 難しい [canonical] (ruby: (むずか)), muzukashii [romanization], mudukasii [romanization], 難しく [adverbial] (ruby: (むずか)), no-table-tags [table-tags], 難しかろ [imperfective, stem], むずかしかろ [imperfective, stem], muzukashikaro [imperfective], 難しく [continuative, stem], むずかしく [continuative, stem], muzukashiku [continuative], 難しい [stem, terminative], むずかしい [stem, terminative], muzukashii [terminative], 難しい [attributive, stem], むずかしい [attributive, stem], muzukashii [attributive], 難しけれ [hypothetical, stem], むずかしけれ [hypothetical, stem], muzukashikere [hypothetical], 難しかれ [imperative, stem], むずかしかれ [imperative, stem], muzukashikare [imperative], 難しくない [informal, negative], むずかしくない [informal, negative], muzukashiku nai [informal, negative], 難しかった [informal, past], むずかしかった [informal, past], muzukashikatta [informal, past], 難しくなかった [informal, negative, past], むずかしくなかった [informal, negative, past], muzukashiku nakatta [informal, negative, past], 難しいです [formal], むずかしいです [formal], muzukashii desu [formal], 難しくないです [formal, negative], むずかしくないです [formal, negative], muzukashiku nai desu [formal, negative], 難しかったです [formal, past], むずかしかったです [formal, past], muzukashikatta desu [formal, past], 難しくなかったです [formal, negative, past], むずかしくなかったです [formal, negative, past], muzukashiku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], 難しくて [conjunctive], むずかしくて [conjunctive], muzukashikute [conjunctive], 難しければ [conditional], むずかしければ [conditional], muzukashikereba [conditional], 難しかったら [conditional, past], むずかしかったら [conditional, past], muzukashikattara [conditional, past], 難しかろう [volitional], むずかしかろう [volitional], muzukashikarō [volitional], 難しく [adverbial], むずかしく [adverbial], muzukashiku [adverbial], 難しさ [noun-from-adj], むずかしさ [noun-from-adj], muzukashisa [noun-from-adj]
  1. difficult
    Sense id: en-難しい-ja-adj-HkRTqYyd Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with manual fragments, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of Japanese links with manual fragments: 91 9 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 91 9 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 91 9 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 78 22 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 74 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5
  2. hard, probably impossible
    Sense id: en-難しい-ja-adj-exXFSH6n
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: むつかしい (mutsukashii) [Kansai, dialectal], むずい (muzui) [slang] Related terms: 大変 (taihen) (ruby: 大変(たいへん))
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "easy",
      "roman": "yasashii",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “difficult”",
      "word": "易しい"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yasui",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “difficult”",
      "word": "易い"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tayasui",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “difficult”",
      "word": "容易い"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "難しい",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "難",
          "むずか"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mudukasii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しく",
      "roman": "muzukashiku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "難",
          "むずか"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashisa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "むずかしい",
        "hhira": "むづかしい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "難(むずか)しい • (muzukashii) ^(←むづかしい (mudukasii)?)-i (adverbial 難(むずか)しく (muzukashiku))",
      "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": "むずかし",
        "lemma": "難し",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "taihen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "大変",
          "たいへん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "大変"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "78 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "95 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a difficult problem",
          "roman": "muzukashii mondai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "難",
              "むずか"
            ],
            [
              "問題",
              "もんだい"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "難しい問題",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "difficult"
      ],
      "id": "en-難しい-ja-adj-HkRTqYyd",
      "links": [
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It is hard to complete in one year.",
          "roman": "Ichinen inai no kansei wa muzukashii.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "一年",
              "いちねん"
            ],
            [
              "以",
              "い"
            ],
            [
              "内",
              "ない"
            ],
            [
              "完成",
              "かんせい"
            ],
            [
              "難",
              "むずか"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "一年以内の完成は難しい。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hard, probably impossible"
      ],
      "id": "en-難しい-ja-adj-exXFSH6n",
      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[mɯ̟zɨka̠ɕii]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "mutsukashii",
      "tags": [
        "Kansai",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "むつかしい"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "muzui",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "むずい"
    }
  ],
  "word": "難しい"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "easy",
      "roman": "yasashii",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “difficult”",
      "word": "易しい"
    },
    {
      "roman": "yasui",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “difficult”",
      "word": "易い"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tayasui",
      "sense": "antonym(s) of “difficult”",
      "word": "容易い"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Japanese adjectives",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with manual fragments",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms historically spelled with づ",
    "Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with multiple readings",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese い-i adjectives",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "難しい",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "難",
          "むずか"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mudukasii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しく",
      "roman": "muzukashiku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "難",
          "むずか"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashii desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashikarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "難しさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むずかしさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "muzukashisa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "むずかしい",
        "hhira": "むづかしい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "難(むずか)しい • (muzukashii) ^(←むづかしい (mudukasii)?)-i (adverbial 難(むずか)しく (muzukashiku))",
      "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": "むずかし",
        "lemma": "難し",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "taihen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "大変",
          "たいへん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "大変"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a difficult problem",
          "roman": "muzukashii mondai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "難",
              "むずか"
            ],
            [
              "問題",
              "もんだい"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "難しい問題",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "difficult"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "difficult",
          "difficult"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It is hard to complete in one year.",
          "roman": "Ichinen inai no kansei wa muzukashii.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "一年",
              "いちねん"
            ],
            [
              "以",
              "い"
            ],
            [
              "内",
              "ない"
            ],
            [
              "完成",
              "かんせい"
            ],
            [
              "難",
              "むずか"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "一年以内の完成は難しい。",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "hard, probably impossible"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[mɯ̟zɨka̠ɕii]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mutsukashii",
      "tags": [
        "Kansai",
        "dialectal"
      ],
      "word": "むつかしい"
    },
    {
      "roman": "muzui",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "むずい"
    }
  ],
  "word": "難しい"
}

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