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+ to do(happy to help) Happy to Help: Adjective + To

Infinitives & Gerunds

は to do でります: happy to help(んでう)、sorry to hear that(それは)、easy to use(使いやすい)。とくに easy / hard は This book is easy to read.(このみやすい)という便えをっていて、らしさのです。

Adjectives of feeling and quality explain themselves with to do: happy to help, sorry to hear that, easy to use. The easy/hard type offers an especially handy rearrangement — This book is easy to read — one of the fastest routes to natural-sounding English.

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Why You Feel It; How It Behaves

I'm happy to help. の to help は「うれしさの」。glad / sad / sorry / surprised / ready / willing など、姿はこのけます。もう1系統が easy / hard / difficult / impossible / safe の: It's easy to read this book. をえて This book is easy to read. とえる——だった this book がする、便です。

In I'm happy to help, the to help supplies the content of the happiness. Feeling-and-stance adjectives — glad, sad, sorry, surprised, ready, willing — all continue this way. The second family is the quality group: easy, hard, difficult, impossible, safe. It's easy to read this book rearranges into This book is easy to read: the object promoted to subject, a peculiarly English convenience.

2つの The two families

I'm sorry to hear about める 【hear about = 〜のことをく】 hear about は「〜についてのく」。hear だけならることで、hear the news なららせそのものをく。about がるとになる。 your dog.

ワンちゃんのこと、おに。

+の to。おやみ・ Feeling + reason — the sympathy formula.

This map is hard to read.

このみにくい。

。「みにくい」がえる。 The quality rearrangement — "hard to read" in one breath.

We're ready to order.

、おいします(できました)。

ready to =「〜するができて」。レストランの必須 Ready to — the restaurant essential.

(happy / sorry / glad)

to の=そのちの The to supplies the feeling's reason.

She was surprised to see me there.

がそこにいていていた。

(easy / hard / safe)

モノをできる(X is easy to do)。 Promotes the thing to subject: X is easy to do.

Is this water safe to drink?

このんでも?

よくある Common Mistake

This book is easy to read it.

このみやすい。(のつもりで)

This book is easy to read.

このみやすい。

this book はもうしているので、read のろにもう it をくとになります。「したらける」——このです。日本語の「このみやすい」もさないので、日本語のままでいけます。

This book has already been promoted to subject, so repeating it after read doubles the reference. Promotion empties the old seat — the one rule this pattern demands. Japanese 「このみやすい」 skips the repeat too, so your native instinct is already correct here.

  • Happy to help! いごです! いへの。I'm のやかに。 The standard reply to thanks — I'm dropped for lightness.
  • Sorry to bother you, but ... しいところすみませんが… み・クッション。 The universal interruption cushion.
  • Nice to meet you. はじめまして。 (It's) nice to meet you の。この (It's) nice to meet you, clipped — the pattern's most famous line.
  • too good to be true がうますぎる too ... to(〜すぎて…ない)と。うますぎてのはずがない。 Where too … to meets the quality family: so good it can't be real.

まとめ Summary

  • + to =そのちの(sorry to hear)。 Feeling adjectives + to give the reason: sorry to hear.
  • は This book is easy to read. のつ。 Quality adjectives run the promotion pattern: easy to read.
  • したらに it をさない。 After promotion, don't repeat the it.
  • Happy to help! / Sorry to bother you をに。 Own Happy to help! and Sorry to bother you.

: 2026-07-23 Last checked: 2026-07-23