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 belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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