がちです／がちになる

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がちです／がちになる

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Yuzuo Chan

11.06.2025

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Meaning

Tends to…; is apt/prone to…; often… (describes a frequent or habitual tendency, usually an undesirable one).

Conjugation

(A)Vます-stem + がち + だ／です (A)Vます-stem + がち + に + なる (A)N + がち + だ／です (A)N + がち + に + なる (modifying a noun: Vます-stem／N + がち + な／の + N; connecting: Vます-stem／N + がち + で)

Examples

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忙いそがしいと、朝あさご飯はんを食たべ忘わすれがちです。

その学生がくせいたちは同おなじ間違まちがいをしがちだ。

律子りつこさんは離婚後りこんご、泣なきがちです。

妹いもうとは子こどものころ病気びょうきがちで、よく学校がっこうを休やすんでいた。

冬ふゆは寒さむいので、家いえにこもりがちになる。

彼かれは遠慮えんりょがちに「あのう…」と話はなしかけてきた。

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grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.wrong: 毎日まいにち運動うんどうしがちです。

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.correct: 運動うんどう不足ぶそくになりがちです。

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.why: がち is normally used for undesirable tendencies; it sounds odd with positive actions such as exercising daily.

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.wrong: 忘わすれるがちだ。

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.correct: 忘わすれがちだ。

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.why: がち attaches to the ます-stem of a verb (忘わすれ), not the dictionary form.

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.wrong: 昨日きのうは寝坊ねぼうしがちでした。

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.correct: 最近さいきん、寝坊ねぼうしがちです。

grammarDetailPage.commonMistakes.why: がち describes a repeated tendency, not a single event on one particular day.

Key points

Used for undesirable tendencies, habits or states, such as 忘わすれがち, 遅おくれがち, 病気びょうきがち and 遠慮えんりょがち. It is not used for good things (×上手じょうずになりがち) or for one-off events. Common nouns are 病気びょうき, 遠慮えんりょ, 留守るす, 曇くもり and 遅刻ちこく.

Compared with ～やすい (easy to do, neutral), ～がち implies the thing happens often and is unwelcome. It is also more about a person's or thing's tendency than an objective physical property. Its register is neutral to slightly formal, and it appears in both speech and writing.

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