N5 grammar

〜やすい

yasui

Easy to do

Formation

やすい says something is easy to do or prone to happening: easy to read, quick to break. It attaches to a verb stem and then behaves as an i-adjective. Do not confuse it with 安い, cheap, which sounds identical.

Examples

〜やすい is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. Access to the resort is quite easy.

  2. This fabric stains easily.

  3. Americans are very friendly people.

  4. It is easy to work in jeans.

  5. The examples in this dictionary are easy to understand.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.