Illustration: In a municipal table-tennis room, a young adult lunges desperately to return a low shot, knees bent awkwardly and free arm stretched behind for balance. Their shirt clings with sweat, and their face shows determined strain.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

苦く戦せん

kusen

to struggle

Example sentences

  1. フランス語ごの文法ぶんぽうに苦戦くせんしています。

    I’m struggling with French grammar.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 激戦げきせんはいくつかあったが、連合軍れんごうぐんは全体的ぜんたいてきにみて苦戦くせんしたというわけではなかった。

    There were several severe battles, but looking at the whole campaign, the allied forces were relatively untroubled.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 昼間時間帯ひるまじかんたいは15分間隔ふんかんかくで運転うんてんされるが、本数ほんすうが少すくないため自動車じどうしゃやJRに苦戦くせんしている。

    Trains run at 15-minute intervals in the daytime, but the line faces difficulty in the competition with JR and private cars due to the low frequency of operation.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 苦戦

  • 苦suffering; trialOnクKunくるしい・くるしむ・くるしめる
  • 戦war; battleOnセンKunいくさ・たたかう・おののく

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