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Hello everyone,
When I am saying something is difficult, does it matter which one I use? Is one more formal, casual, or better than the other?
For example, すしは難しい食べる vs すしは食べにくいだThe first sentence is grammatically incorrect. You might say 「すしは難しい食べ物だ。」 for “Sushi is a difficult food.” but it sounds strange. Go with number two.
Oops. Thanks for the correction. And I just realized that one is an adjective and the other an adverb.
AnonymousFor the second sentence, since ‘nikui’ is an i-adjective, you can’t have the declarative ‘da’ at the end, unless you’re using the explaining ‘no’ particle. It would be correct to say ‘tabenikui noda’ or ‘tabenikui nda’.
For the first sentence, if you’re trying to say ‘eating sushi is difficult’, the nominalizing ‘no’ particle should be used. It might sound better if you say ‘sushi wo taberuno ha muzukashii desu.’
Both of these types of sentences are grammatically equally polite. It just depends on whether you have ‘desu’ on the end or not.
Sorry I have to write in romaji! I’m not at my home computer right now. ^^Had this exact same question when I started :P Native speakers on lang-8 had a hard time explaining haha. Can’t really remember what they said to be honest :S
@mister – whats your lang8 profile?
@missingno15: LOL! You beat me to posting my own profile…
@isocracy: I haven’t used Lang-8 in forever. I’m focussing more on understanding Japanese than being able to produce it. Lang-8 will have its place for me some day though ;)
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