<entry id="2289120" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2108410</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>優劣つけがたい</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>優劣付け難い</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>優劣付けがたい</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>優劣つけ難い</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ゆうれつつけがたい</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
<gloss>hard to choose between (because both are excellent)</gloss>
<gloss>equally matched</gloss>
<gloss>of comparable quality</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2006-11-08 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-18 20:17:15" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>dom</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>優劣つけがたい	1727	81.9%
優劣つけ難い	382	18.1%</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;優劣つけ難い&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-18 21:24:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Trying to make the glosses a little more adjectival. Looks like this expression does inflect.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>〈優劣／ゆうれつ／ユウレツ〉〈付（け）／つけ／ツケ〉〈難／がた／ガタ〉〈い／イ〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 優劣つけがたい │ 1,727 │ 58.9% │
│ 優劣付けがたい │   519 │ 17.7% │
│ 優劣つけ難い　 │   382 │ 13.0% │
│ 優劣付け難い　 │   304 │ 10.4% │
├─ーーーーーーー─┼───────┼───────┤
│ 優劣つけがたく │   309 │ 53.6% │
│ 優劣付けがたく │   115 │ 20.0% │
│ 優劣つけ難く　 │    99 │ 17.2% │
│ 優劣付け難く　 │    53 │  9.2% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -7,0 +8,7 @@
+&lt;keb&gt;優劣付け難い&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;優劣付けがたい&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
@@ -8,0 +16 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
@@ -15 +23,4 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;it's hard to choose (because both are excellent)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-i;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;hard to choose between (because both are excellent)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;equally matched&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;of comparable quality&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-18 22:36:21" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>