Vocabulary

苦しい

painful; difficult; tough; hard

i-adjective
N3 freq #18

Example sentences

He meditated on his past life of suffering.

His family is rather badly off.

She could scarcely gasp the words.

To some life is pleasure, to others suffering.

It's so painful. Stop it!

Danger past, God forgotten.

It's hard for me to live on my small income.

They were badly off in the village.