膝の調子が悪くて階段がきつい

N3 膝 hiza knee, lap N3 調子 choushi condition, rhythm, tone, state N3 悪 aku evil, vice, badness N5 階段 kaidan stairs N3 きつい kitsui tight, hard, intense, severe

N1 膝 shitsu / hiza knee, lap, rodilla N3 調 chou / shira.beru, shira.be, totono.u, totono.eru tune, tone, meter N5 子 shi, su, tsu / ko, -ko, ne child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM N4 悪 aku, o / waru.i, waru-, a.shi, niku.i, -niku.i, aa, izukuni, izukunzo, niku.mu bad, vice, rascal N2 階 kai / kizahashi storey, stair, counter for storeys of a building N3 段 dan, tan grade, steps, stairs

N5 〜が ga Marks the grammatical subject, highlights new information, can also show slight contrast in some sentences N5 〜の no Indicates possession, relation between nouns, nominal explanation, or turns a verb into a noun phrase