I was going through 日本語パ ワードリル N2, and there’s this question :
In the following phrase, select the most appropriate word to fill in the blank.
田中さんは飽き\_\_\_から、きっと3日で練習をやめてしまうだろう。
Choices are:
1. がちだ
2. 気味だ
3. っぽい
4. すぎる
The correct answer for this question is っぽい, but from my understanding, かちだ also seems like a correct answer.
I checked the following resources, among others:
[https://bunpro.jp/grammar\_points/%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A1](https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A1)
[https://bunpro.jp/grammar\_points/%E3%81%A3%E3%81%BD%E3%81%84](https://bunpro.jp/grammar_points/%E3%81%A3%E3%81%BD%E3%81%84)
[https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/12371/difference-between-%E3%81%A3%E3%81%BD%E3%81%84-%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A1-and-%E3%82%84%E3%81%99%E3%81%84](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/12371/difference-between-%E3%81%A3%E3%81%BD%E3%81%84-%E3%81%8C%E3%81%A1-and-%E3%82%84%E3%81%99%E3%81%84)
From my understanding, っぽい is preferred over がち when the tendency is “uncertain” or “seems like”. But still, I can not understand why っぽい is preferred over がちだ in this particular phrase.
Did I miss something ?
3 comments
I think in this case 飽きっぽい is a set phrase so you just have to already know the word. Maybe some Japanese native speakers will have a better perspective.
飽きっぽい is just a common phrase. But intuitively, I think of it like this:
飽きっぽい is a characteristic of the person mentioned. “Tanaka-san is a person who gets bored easily.”
~~飽きがち is a tendency or pattern in their behavior. “Tanaka-san tends to get bored easily.”~~
Edit: I think my line of thinking described here works generally, but for 飽きる specifically, I think I won’t use 飽きがち when describing a person, at all. I’d use it in sentences like “I tend to get bored when reading a long book.”
～っぽい is generally used for negative traits: e.g. 子どもっぽい. Maybe that’s what they were focusing on.
Also ～っぽい describes a trait of a person; in this case someone who’s the type of person to get bored easily. ～がち describes a tendency to do something (i.e. something one is prone/liable to do).