What does 難い (katai | かたい ) mean in Japanese?

	The Japanese word
	難い
	is pronounced
	katai \| かたい
	means
	difficult, hard

	Examples:
	信じ難いな。 shinji gatai na. It's hard to believe.
	何とも言い難いな。 nantomo ī gatai na. That's hard to say.
	これは始末の難い問題だ。 kore wa shimatsu no katai mondai da. This is a difficult problem to solve.
	大阪の方言は聞き取り難い。 ōsaka no hōgen wa kikitori gatai. It's hard to catch words in the Osakan dialect. \| It's hard to understand the Osaka dialect.
	あなたが言う事は全く信じ難いです。 anata ga iu koto wa mattaku shinji gatai desu. It's hard to believe anything you say.
	暮らし向きが悪いと人生は耐え難いものとなる。 kurashi muki ga warui to jinsei wa taegatai mono to naru. To be badly off makes life hard to bear.
	今時良い仕事はなかなかないが得難いのを忘れないでね。 imadoki yoi shigoto wa nakanaka nai ga egatai no o wasure nai de ne. Don't forget that good jobs are very hard to come by these days.
	しかし、天才であるが故に一般ピーポーから理解され難いというのは宿命とも言えるわ。 shikashi, tensai de aru ga yueni ippan pīpō kara rikai sa re gatai toyū no wa jukumei to mo ieru wa. However you could say that being found hard to understand by the common folk for one's genius is fate.

	Examples sourced from tatoeba.org