くる
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. painful; difficult; tough; hard
2. distressing; (psychologically) difficult; stressful; awkward (e.g. position)
3. straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation); needy; struggling
4. strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.); lame (e.g. excuse); forced (e.g. smile); far-fetched
Adjective (い)
Suffix
5. hard to do; unpleasant
after -masu stem of verb; often ぐるしい
Kanji used
suffering
Pitch accent
るし
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Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
heavy (feeling, etc.); gloomy (weather, etc.); oppressive (atmosphere, etc.); stifling; strained
filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid
have a pain in one's chest
lame excuse; poor excuse
Examples (1 in total)
They had to endure a hard life.