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- Reading and JLPT level
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苦しい
JLPT 3 - Kana Reading
- くるしい
- Romaji
- kurushii
- Word Senses
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- Parts of speech
- suffix, adjective (keiyoushi)
- Meaning
- (after masu stem) hard to do; unpleasant
- Example sentence
- 彼らは苦しい生活に耐えねばならなかった。 They had to endure a hard life.
Examples of 苦しい, くるしい in a sentence
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苦しかったらギブアップして、お姉さんのお願いを聞きなさいっ。
If you can't take it, give up and do what I, your older sister, asked of you.
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A good medicine tastes bitter.
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Their grace comes from hard work, sweat, and pain.
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非常に苦しいさなかにも、笑うことは、感情の激しい人には容易にできることではない。
Being able to smile while in great distress is not duck soup for a passionate individual.
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彼らは苦しい生活に耐えねばならなかった。
They had to endure a hard life.
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He meditated on his past life of suffering.
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