使いにくい
つかいにくい
i-adjective
hard to use; awkward to handle; user-unfriendly
Conjugation
| Affirmative | Negative | |
|---|---|---|
| Present | 使いにくい | 使いにくくない |
| Past | 使いにくかった | 使いにくくなかった |
| て form | 使いにくくて | 使いにくくなくて |
| Adverbial | 使いにくく | — |
| Conditional ば | 使いにくければ | 使いにくくなければ |
| Conditional たら | 使いにくかったら | 使いにくくなかったら |
1.
hard to use; awkward to handle; inconvenient
Describes a tool, device, software, or space that works but is troublesome or unintuitive in practice. Formed from 使う plus the suffix 〜にくい (difficult to do).
このハサミは使いにくい。
These scissors are hard to use.
新しいアプリは使いにくくて困っている。
The new app is user-unfriendly and it's giving me trouble.
台所が狭くて使いにくいので、棚の位置を変えることにした。
The kitchen is cramped and awkward to use, so we decided to move the shelves.
The suffix 〜にくい attaches to a verb stem to mean "hard to do." It describes the object's own inconvenience, not the speaker's lack of skill.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 使いにくい道具: an awkward tool
- 使いにくいソフト: unwieldy software
- 使いにくくなる: to become hard to use
- ちょっと使いにくい: a bit inconvenient to use
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 使いやすい: easy to use — the direct opposite
- 不便な: inconvenient — about a situation or arrangement, not about handling an object
- 扱いにくい: hard to handle — also used of people who are difficult to deal with