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優劣つけがたい； 優劣付け難い； 優劣付けがたい [sK] ； 優劣つけ難い [sK]
【 ゆうれつつけがたい 】
1. [exp,adj-i]
▶ hard to choose between (because both are excellent)
▶ equally matched
▶ of comparable quality

Conjugations


History:
4. A 2024-01-18 22:36:21  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2024-01-18 21:24:29  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  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─┴───────┴───────╯
  Comments: 
Trying to make the glosses a little more adjectival. Looks like this expression does inflect.
  Diff: 
@@ -7,0 +8,7 @@
+<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>
@@ -8,0 +16 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -15 +23,4 @@
-<gloss>it's hard to choose (because both are excellent)</gloss>
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
+<gloss>hard to choose between (because both are excellent)</gloss>
+<gloss>equally matched</gloss>
+<gloss>of comparable quality</gloss>
2. A* 2024-01-18 20:17:15  dom <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
優劣つけがたい	1727	81.9%
優劣つけ難い	382	18.1%
  Diff: 
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>優劣つけ難い</keb>
1. A 2006-11-08 00:00:00 
  Comments: 
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