not hard to; easy to

に難くない means it is not difficult to do something, usually 想像する or 察する. Attach it to a verb's dictionary form. It is formal and litotes-like, gently asserting that one can readily imagine or understand the matter.

Examples

• 彼かれの苦労くろうは想像そうぞうに難かたくない。

  Kare no kurou wa souzou ni katakunai.

  His hardship is not hard to imagine.

• 結果けっかがどうなるかは、察さっするに難かたくない。

  Kekka ga dou naru ka wa, sassuru ni katakunai.

  It's not hard to guess how it will turn out.

Vocabulary in these examples

• 彼 he, him
• 苦労 hardship, trouble
• 結果 result, outcome
• どう how
• なる to become

Related patterns · Formal and literary

• 〜をもって with; by means of; as of
• 〜にあって in; at; under (a situation)
• 〜とあって because (a special situation)
• 〜べからず must not; do not (prohibition)
• 〜まじき unbecoming; that should never be
• 〜ごとし like; as if