--- In [email protected], Aaron Ackerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just ran the sentence "kanojo wa okoriyasui" by my girlfriend, who is > a native speaker, and she said that it sounds fine to her. After that, > I checked "-yasui" in the dictionary, and one of the example sentences > is "Toshi no sei ka tukareyasuku natta" meaning "I find that I tire > quickly [easily] these days; I must be getting old." This describes a > person. > Aaron Ackerson I still think the sentence "kanojo wa okoriyasui" is strange, but apparently it's not incorrect as your girlfriend says. I've googled "okorippoi", "okoriyasui", "wa okorippoi", and "wa okoriyasui" and got the following results: okorippoi 187,000 okoriyasui 26,600 wa okorippoi 15,300 wa okoriyasui 926 You can see "okorippoi" is much more common than "okoriyasui", especially when followed by "wa". This means, roughly speaking, "kare/kanojo wa okorippoi" is 17 times more common than "kare/kanojo wa okoriyasui". As for the dictionary example, it's perfectly all right to say "Toshi no sei ka tsukareyasuku natta". Maybe I should have said "-yasui is not usually used to describe people's character". By the way, there's no such word as "tsukareppoi"--"tsukareyasui" is the only word you can use. When you say such sentences like "kare/kanojo wa okoriyasui", any Japanese will understand what you mean. But you should remember that there are some people who feel the usage of -yasui is a little weird. Kamui ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Japanese_Language/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Japanese_Language/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
