Grammar Info

N4 Lesson 1: 2/18

～易(やす)いEasy to, Likely to

Structure

Verb［stem］+ やすい

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About やすい

易(やす)い is an い-Adjective that is regularly seen attached to the ます stem of verbs (the form of a verb that can be used as a noun). When attached in this way, it carries the meaning of 'easy to (A)', where (A) is the verb that comes before やすい.

Sometimes, やすい has a translation that is a bit closer to 'prone to (A)', or 'likely to (A)' in English. This nuance is regularly seen when the verb is related to emotions.

Caution

There is another adjective 安(やす)い that has the meaning of 'cheap'. This kanji should never be used with verbs to mean 'easy'. Most of the time, やすい itself will be written in hiragana, and usage of 易(やす)い is quite limited.

Fun Fact

Although 易(やす)い is an い-Adjective, it is almost never used by itself (when not attached to verbs). In such cases, it is much more natural to use the な-Adjective 簡単(かんたん).

Antonyms

Examples

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    ケーキは作(つく)りやすい。

    Cake is easy to make.

    この魚(さかな)は食(た)べやすいです。

    This fish is easy to eat.

    昨日(きのう)の練習(れんしゅう)はしやすかった。

    Yesterday's practice was easy to do.

    この白(しろ)い服(ふく)は、汚(よご)れやすいです。

    These white clothes are easy to get dirty.

    この音楽(おんがく)が好(す)きだから、踊(おど)りやすい。

    Because I like this music, it is easy to dance.

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やすい – Grammar Discussion

Most Recent Replies (11 in total)

  • Zeric

    Zeric

    Ah, I see.
    I am still in the phase of ignoring the rest of the sentence and only focusing on the grammar itself.

    Thanks for the help.

  • Alex11

    Alex11

    東京から大阪へは電車が行きやすいですよ。

    Why is it ga and not de?

  • SpaceOnigiri

    SpaceOnigiri

    Because 行きやすい is an adverb and 電車 is a subject, while が is a subject marker. で is a marker of the location where something is going on or the tool with that something is done, so you can’t use で in here, because it doesn’t do anything with the train, you can roughly translate is like “Train is easy travelable” or something like that, your problem is that you try to apply English grammar to Japanese.

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