〜やすい

JLPT N4:

easy to

Says something is easy to do, or tends to happen: "easy to…", "…easily".

How to form it

  • Start from the ます form and replace ます with やすい: 読(よ)みます becomes 読(よ)みやすい.
  • The result is an い-adjective: 読(よ)みやすくない, 読(よ)みやすかった.
  • With verbs for things that just happen, it means "tends to": 壊(こわ)れやすい (breaks easily).

Examples

この本(ほん)は読(よ)みやすいです。

This book is easy to read.

彼(かれ)は話(はな)しやすい人(ひと)だ。

He's easy to talk to.

Similar meaning