煩わしい

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 煩わしい, read わずらわしい, means troublesome or bothersome to deal with.
• Basic usage: Use it for burdens such as repeatedly entering information or going through cumbersome procedures.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Difficulty and bother
  • 難しい means difficult, while 煩わしい focuses on the effort and annoyance involved.
• Noun modification and inflection
  • It comes directly before a noun, as in the example 煩わしい手続き.
  • Its past form is 煩わしかった.