〜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: 読みます becomes 読みやすい.
- The result is an い-adjective: 読みやすくない, 読みやすかった.
- With verbs for things that just happen, it means "tends to": 壊れやすい (breaks easily).
Examples
この本は読みやすいです。
This book is easy to read.
彼は話しやすい人だ。
He's easy to talk to.
Similar meaning
- 〜にくいhard to
The opposite: "hard to".