I Love Kanji困難 (konnan)
困難 (こんなん, konnan) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “difficulty; hardship”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- こんなん
- Romaji
- konnan
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- difficulty; hardship; trouble; distress · noun, な-adjective
- infeasibility; inability (to carry out) · noun, な-adjective · euph
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 困難
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 困難だ | こんなんだ konnanda |
| Present (polite) | 困難です | こんなんです konnandesu |
| Negative | 困難じゃない | こんなんじゃない konnanjanai |
| Past | 困難だった | こんなんだった konnandatta |
| Negative past | 困難じゃなかった | こんなんじゃなかった konnanjanakatta |
| Te-form | 困難で | こんなんで konnande |
| Before a noun | 困難な | こんなんな konnanna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 困難に | こんなんに konnanni |
Kanji in 困難
困
quandary, become distressed, annoyedコン・こま.る · 7 strokes難
difficult, impossible, troubleナン・かた.い・-がた.い · 18 strokesRelated words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 困難.
困るこまるto be troubled貧困ひんこんpoverty難しいむずかしいdifficult難なんdifficulty災難さいなんcalamity盗難とうなんtheft有難いありがたいgrateful難いがたいvery difficult to ...遭難そうなん(meeting with) disaster無難ぶなんsafe (e.g. choice)非難ひなんcriticism避難ひなんtaking refuge
Source: JMdict entry 1289620 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.