In Japanese, yokatta よかった means "was good," "I'm glad," "that's a relief," "thank goodness," and "it would have been better [if...]," depending on context.

It's the past form of ii いい. Its antonym is warukatta 悪かった.

• Kanji
• Grammar
  • "Was Good"
    • "I'm Glad"
    • "That's a Relief"
    • "Thank Goodness"
  • よかったじゃない？
  • ~てよかった
    • ～でよかった
  • Counterfactuals
    • ～ばよかった
    • ～ならよかった
    • ～方がよかった
    • するんじゃなかった

In Japanese, hou ga ii 方がいい means "it's better if" most of the time. It can be used in three ways: to advise to do something, to warn them to not do something, or to simply state you think it would be better if something happened or not.

A variant is hou ga yoi 方がよい. It's also spelled hou ga ii/yoi 方が良い, ほうがいい, ほうがよい.

• Examples
  • It's better if... something didn't happen
  • It's better if... you don't do something
  • It's better if... you do something
• Explanation
• Hou ga Yokatta 方がよかった

In Japanese, warukatta 悪かった often means "sorry for that" or "it was his fault," although, literally, warukatta means "was bad." It's the past form of the i-adjective warui 悪い, "bad," which can used to say "sorry" and blame people for things.

• Examples

In Japanese, warii 悪ぃ means "sorry" or "my bad" most of the time. It's also spelled 悪ィ, わりぃ, ワリィ, etc. It's a relaxed pronunciation of warui 悪い, so everything warui means warii means too.

• Nuance
• Spelling
• Examples
  • 悪ィ
  • ワリぃ
  • ワリィワリィ

The phrase warui slime janai yo, or rather, warui suraimu janai yo 悪いスライムじゃないよ, meaning "[I'm] not a bad slime," comes from the RPG series Dragon Quest: it's a catch-phrase used used by NPC slimes to tell the player they aren't going to fight him.

• Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
• Origin

In Japanese, meaning of warui 悪い would be literally "bad." It's an i-adjective. Note, however, that a lot of times warui and its inflections have other meanings and usage, like to say "sorry," to say somebody is at "fault," to ask what's "wrong" about something, and so on.

Since it can be pretty hard to tell which meaning exactly you're facing in any given phrase, I recommend you to read the whole article to familiarize yourself with all the ways warui can be used, rather than just reading a few sections.

• Basic Usage
• Conjugation
• Antonym
  • Negative Antonym
• "Sorry"
• Warii 悪ぃ【わりぃ】
• It's Your "Fault"
• Warukatta 悪かった
• That Was a "Mistake"
• Warukunai 悪くない
• "Wrong"
• Warui Kedo 悪いけど
• Niwa Warui Kedo には悪いけど
• Waruku 悪く
• Warusa 悪さ
• Set Phrases
  • Warui Hito 悪い人
  • Warui Koto 悪いこと
  • -ga Warui ～が悪い
• Other Words That Mean "Bad"

In Japanese, doshigatai 度し難い means "irredeemable," "beyond salvation." However, the literal meaning of the word a bit more complicated. And given that this is a catchphrase in the manga and anime Made in Abyss, I supposed it deserves a thorough explanation.

In Japanese, ~gatai ～がたい, also spelled ~gatai ～難い, is an auxiliary adjective that means something "hard to do" because you aren't willing to do it, or it's "hard to happen" because you don't believe it normally happen.

(not to be confused with gattai 合体, which means "to combine.")

• Usage
• Conjugation
• ～難い
  • Katai 難い
• ～がたい vs. ～にくい
  • Resisting to Do It
  • I'd Rather Not
  • Psychological Verbs
  • Probably Not Gonna Happen
• ～がたい vs. ～づらい
• Further Reading

In Japanese, ~dzurai ～づらい, also written ~dzurai ～辛い, pronounced the same way as zurai ずらい, and inputted in an IME as durai, is an auxiliary adjective that means a verb is "hard for you to do" because doing it causes you trouble or distress.

• Usage
• Conjugation
• tsurai 辛い
• zurai ずらい
• ～づらい vs. ～にくい
• Antonym
• Further Reading

In Japanese, -nikui ～にくい, also written -nikui ～難い, -nikui ～悪い, is an auxiliary adjective that means something is "hard to do." In essence, -nikui ～にくい is the antonym of the auxiliary adjective -yasui ～やすい, which means "easy to do."

• Usage
• Conjugation
• Homonyms
  • Nikui 憎い
  • Minikui 醜い vs. 見にくい
  • -gatai ～難い
• "Hard" in Japanese
  • "Hard" Difficulty
  • "Hardware"
  • "Hard," i.e. "Not Soft"
• Examples
  • 息がしにくい
• Further Reading

In Japanese, ~yasui ～やすい is an auxiliary adjective that means something is "easy" to do or to happen. It's also a normal i-adjective that means "easy," yasui 易い. When the word is written with a different kanji, yasui 安い, it means something is "cheap" or "calm."

• Auxiliary Adjective
  • Usage
  • Conjugation
  • Easy to Do vs. Easy to Happen
• 易い
  • Tayasui たやすい【容易い】
• 安い
  • "Cheap"
  • "Calm"
    • 安らか、安らかな
• Antonyms
  
• "Easy" in Japanese
  • Easy Game Difficulty
  • Easy Woman
• Examples
  • 分かりやすい
  • 気安い
• Further Reading

In Japanese, -rashii ～らしい is an auxiliary adjective that has a couple of tricky meanings. Usually, rashii means "I heard that," or "it seems that," or "it's like that," or "-esque," depending on how it's used.

• Definition
• Rumors & Hearsay
• お前らしい
  • らしくない
  • らしくなった
• Fitting The Role
  • Acting The Role
• -esque
• -ish
• -ly
  • 可愛らしい vs. 可愛いらしい
• らしく Conjectures
• らしい vs. ようだ
• Further Reading

Relative clauses, or adjective clauses, are, literally, clauses that work as adjectives to modify nouns. Now, that might sound a bit complicated and grammatical if the only clause you know is Santa, but it basically means that you can use verbs to describe things. For example:

• neko ga shaberu 猫が喋る
  The cat talks.
• shaberu 喋る
  To talk. (a verb.)
• shaberu neko 喋る猫
  The cat [that] talks
• ...that talks:
  A relative clause.

In the example above, we aren't talking about any one cat. We're talking about the cat that talks, the talking cat, specifically.

In Japanese, relative clauses are called rentai-shuushoku-setsu 連体修飾節, "prenominal modifying clause," since they're clauses that come before nouns to modify them.

• English Relative Pronouns
• That, Which, Who
• Whose
• Whom
• Relative Adverbs
• Wildcard Nouns
• Nomenclature
• Nominalizers
• Grammar
• Basic Usage
• With Verb in Non-Past Form
• With Verb in Past Form
• With Verb in Negative Form
• With Verb in Tai Form
• With Verb in Potential Form
• Ga が Becoming No の in Relative Clause
• In Na-Adjective Clauses
• Passive Form and Transitiveness
• 殺した人 vs. 殺された人
• 殺された人が殺した人を殺す
• 彼に殺された人
• 家族を殺された人
• With Verb in Causative Form
• Practically Causative Verbs
• Causative Ambiguities
• With Personal Pronouns
• Wa は in Relative Clauses
• dewanai ではない
• In Adverbial Clauses
• After the Relative Clause
• With Beki
• Nested Relative Clauses
• Cheat Sheet
• Examples
• Further Reading

In Japanese, naide ないで is a phrase created from the auxiliary adjective nai ない plus the particle de で. It has a number of different functions, the most common one being to ask people not do something.

• tabenai-de kudasai! 食べないでください！
  Please don't eat me!
• — Kaban-Chan.

• Negative Request
  • ないでください
  • ないでくれ
  • ないでくれる
  • ないでもらえますか
  • ないでほしい
• ないで vs. なくて
• Different Ways to Use
• Further Reading

The term no-adjective refers to Japanese adjectives created by adding the no の particle after a noun. Generally speaking, "noun-no-noun" uses the first noun to describe the second noun somehow. This is also called the "genitive case."

• Densetsu no Yamada Tae
  伝説の山田たえ
  The Legendary Yamada Tae.
• densetsu 伝説
  Legend.

The term "no-adjective" is mostly used when teaching Japanese to non-native speakers, because a noun marked by the genitive case-marking particle no の acts like an adjective.

There doesn't seem to be a Japanese equivalent for this term. Some books don't use the term at all. Furthermore, no-adjectives can be used in a hundred different ways, so it'd be very difficult to explain what is a no-adjective exactly, and perhaps even a futile effort.

Anyways:

• Genitive Case
• Ambiguity of No-Adjectives
• Noun Compounds
• Kanji Compounds
• Examples of Usage
• Chart
• Possessive Case
• Possessive Personal Pronouns
• Places and Residency
• Usage With Numbers
• Partitive
• No Hitotsu のひとつ
• No Hitotsu ya Futatsu のひとつやふたつ
• No Hitori の一人
• Members of Groups
• No Between Family Name and Given Name
• Omission in Names
• Aspect and Categorization
• Material and Composition
• Region and Origin
• Colors
• Direct Attributes
• Superlatives
• Apposition
• Directions
• Densetsu no Ki no Shita 伝説のキノシタ
• Verbs Involved in Genitives
• Agent of Action
• Verb as No-Adjective
• Patient of Action
• Ambiguity of Verb Nouns
• Genitives and Transitivity
• Usage With Particles
• の Instead of が in Relative Clauses
• が Instead of の as Possessive Marker
• での, からの, までの, への
• Suffixes
• -Tame no ～ための
• -You no ～用の
• Expressions
• Attributive Copula No の
• Further Reading