Sugiru

Meaning: too, do something too much/often, over~

Key Sentences

Vmasu + sugiru

1) Yamada san wa niku o tabe-sugiru/sugmiasu (Yamada san eats too much meat)

Adj-stem

2) Kono apato wa watashitachi ni wa taka-sugiru (This apartment is too much expensive for us)

Simple

hanashi-sugiru - talk too much

taka-sugiru - too expensive

shizuka-sugiru - too quite

Examples

Kono tsukue wa watashi no heya ni wa ooki sugiru (This table is too big for my room)

Yamada sensei no jugyoo wa taihen sugiru node yamemashita (I dropped from Yamada's class because it was too demanding)

Yamada san wa futori-sugite-iru (Yamada san is too fat)

Notes

1) Sugiru is mainly used as an Auxiliary verb or with i/na adjective

2) ii (good) changes to yo. For example Kono apato wa Tomu ni wa yo sugiru meaning This apartment is too good for Tom

3) Negative nai (Not exists/ not) is transformed into nasa. For example Yamada san wa chikara ga nasa sugiru (Yamada san has too little power = Yamada san is weak) or Yamada san wa yasai o tabenasa sugiru (Yamada san eats too few vegetables)

4) be too ~ for something/someone is expressed by ni wa as it's seen in above examples