Questions & Answers about kono kanji wa kakinikui desu.
How do you pronounce the sentence in Japanese and what’s the romanization?
What does 書きにくい mean, and how is it formed?
書きにくい means “difficult to write” or “hard to write.”
It’s formed by taking the verb stem 書き (from 書く, “to write”) and adding the suffix にくい, which creates an i-adjective expressing that an action is hard to do.
What part of speech is 書きにくい?
書きにくい is an i-adjective (形容詞). I-adjectives end in い in their plain form and can directly modify nouns or be used predicatively with です.
Why is there no を before 書きにくい? Shouldn’t 漢字 be marked as the direct object of write?
In this sentence 書きにくい is an adjective, not the verb 書く. The structure is:
Topic (この漢字) + は + i-adjective (書きにくい) + です.
Since it’s an adjective phrase (“hard to write”), you don’t use the object marker を here.
What is the function of は in this sentence?
