～やすい

How to form it

• Verb (ます-stem) + やすい

Register: Neutral

Explanation

Says that something is easy to do, or that something tends to happen.

It can describe how easy a thing is to use or do, or a tendency to happen (壊れやすい, 怒りやすい). It conjugates like an い-adjective.

Examples

1. この本は、字が大きくて読みやすい。

   このほんは、じがおおきくてよみやすい。

   This book has large print and is easy to read.

2. この靴は、歩きやすい。

   このくつは、あるきやすい。

   These shoes are easy to walk in.

3. 彼は、怒りやすい性格だ。

   かれは、おこりやすいせいかくだ。

   He has a personality that gets angry easily.

4. 説明がわかりやすくて、助かった。

   せつめいがわかりやすくて、たすかった。

   The explanation was easy to understand, which helped.

Compare with

• ～にくい: にくい is the opposite: difficult to do.
• ～がち: がち is a tendency, often for things that happen too easily.

Common mistakes

• Using it with a noun or a dictionary form of the verb.