がり

someone who is easily, sensitive to cold, scaredy-cat, shy person, personality

AI-generated

Structure

[i-adj 〜い → 〜] + がり [i-adj 〜い → 〜] + がり + の + [noun]

Description

がり turns a feeling adjective into a noun for a person who feels it easily: さむがり寒がり is someone who always feels the cold. Drop the い of the い-adjective and add がり. The result is a noun, so it takes です or だ, and の before another noun.

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I really feel the cold.

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He's always too hot, so he opens the window even in midwinter.

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Our cat scares easily and hides when it thunders.

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I put the heating on for a friend who feels the cold.

It is a closed set of words, not a rule you can apply to any adjective. Besides 寒がり and こわがり怖がり, you will meet あつがり暑がり, いたがり痛がり, はずかしがり恥ずかしがり and さびしがり寂しがり.

がり屋

and usually take , "a person of that kind": , . With 屋 they read as a fixed description of someone's character.

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She's shy, but she sings very well.

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I get lonely easily, so living alone doesn't suit me.

がり or がる

がり is the noun form of the verb suffix がる. 寒がる says what someone is doing now, showing that they are cold. 寒がり says what kind of person they are.

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She's feeling the cold.

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She's someone who always feels the cold.

works differently: it is the act of putting on a brave face, not a kind of person.

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That's just bravado.

Examples

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My younger sister is sensitive to cold and always wears two coats in winter.

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He's sensitive to heat, so he opens the window even in midwinter.

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Our cat is easily scared, so it hides when it thunders.

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There are many shy children.

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I get lonely easily, so I'm not good at living alone.

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Are you sensitive to heat, or sensitive to cold?

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My younger brother is sensitive to pain, so he hates injections.

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She's shy, but she's very good at singing.

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I turned on the heater for my friend who is sensitive to cold.

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Despite being a scaredy-cat, he wants to go to a haunted house.

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My father is sensitive to heat and my mother is sensitive to cold, so they always fight over the air conditioner temperature.

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