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むずかしい info.

Tips to remember the Japanese word:
1. Mnemonic: "Music is hard to compose" (むずかしい sounds a bit like "muzukashii", relating the concept of difficulty to creating music).
2. Visualize a challenging task when seeing or hearing "むずかしい".
3. Associate it with an image of a complex puzzle or a hard-to-solve problem.

Explanations:
むずかしい (muzukashii) directly translates to "difficult" or "hard" in English. It describes something that poses a challenge or requires considerable effort to accomplish or understand.

Other words that mean the same thing:
1. 困難 (こんなん, konnan) – difficult, hard, trouble
2. 複雑 (ふくざつ, fukuzatsu) – complicated, complex

Alternate meanings like slang:
むずかしい doesn’t have a slang meaning, but it has a polite version, 難しい (むずかしい, muzukashii) and can sometimes imply that someone is being stubborn or hard to deal with in a context like, “彼はむずかしい人だ” (He’s a difficult person).

Examples of sentences:
1. この問題はとてもむずかしいです。
(Kono mondai wa totemo muzukashii desu.)
This problem is very difficult.

2. 日本語を習うのはむずかしいです。
(Nihongo o narau no wa muzukashii desu.)
Learning Japanese is difficult.

3. 子供にとって、この本はむずかしすぎる。
(Kodomo ni totte, kono hon wa muzukashisugiru.)
For children, this book is too difficult.

4. このゲームはむずかしいから、とってもやりがいがある。
(Kono geemu wa muzukashii kara, totemo yarigai ga aru.)
This game is difficult, so it's very rewarding.

5. 彼の名前は発音するのがむずかしい。
(Kare no namae wa hatsuon suru no ga muzukashii.)
His name is difficult to pronounce.

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