Meaning
Shows that an action is difficult because of a psychological, social, or physical reason.
Formation
- Drop ます and add づらい: 話します → 話しづらい
- づらい is inner reluctance, にくい is a property of the thing
When to use it
- Core use
- Hard to bring oneself to do it
Example
このことは先生に話しづらいです
It is hard for me to talk about this with the teacher.
Important notes
- Pay attention to the word form before the construction and to the particles around it.
Common mistakes
- Do not translate the pattern word for word; first identify its function in the whole situation.