辛い

Kana: つらい

painful; hard to bear

Example sentence

失敗は彼にとって辛いです。

しっぱいはかれにとってつらいです。

The failure is painful for him.

What 辛い means

辛い (つらい) is a Japanese word meaning “painful; hard to bear”. It appears in the Level 3 collection, under Describing Words.

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