TAKOBOTO

too; too much; excessively
This problem is too difficult for me

そのひとはちょっとたべすぎましたね。

That person ate a little too much .

このりんごはあますぎて、たべられない。

This apple is too sweet to eat.

あそこはすこしたかすぎるとおもいます。

I think the place over there is a little too expensive.

あのおとこはおしゃべりすぎる。

He talks too much.

いまからではおそすぎる。

It's too late now.

このイスはわたしにはひくすぎる。

This chair is too low for me.

このウイスキーはつよすぎる。

This whisky is too strong.

このカレーはからすぎる。

This curry is too hot.

このズボンはわたしにははですぎる。

These pants are too fancy for me.

このもんだいはたんじゅんすぎる。

This problem is too simple.

かれはあめをたべすぎます。

He eats too much candy.

added to Verbs: Conjunctive form of Verb
(行く-->行き；食べる-->食べ) + すぎる
add to Adjectives: Root of Adjective
(むずかしい-->むすかし；大きい-->大き）+　すぎる

This construction can mean "too much," as in,
むずかしすぎる (too hard); 大きすぎる (too big) or it can mean "excessively," as in, 行きすぎる (to go too much); 食べすぎる (to eat too much).

Ness

With the examples here it would seem that

tabesugiru = eat too much
hanashisugiru = talk too much.

Could anyone explain why 'hanashisugiru' means 'talk too much' but 'hayaku hanashisugiru' means 'speak too quickly'?

From my understanding, I would have said that 'ano hito ha hayaku hanashisugimasu' translates as 'That person quickly speaks too much'.

bi-ru

To me, "that person quickly speaks too much" doesn't make much sense. hayaku hanashisugiru means "speak too quickly" because hayaku is an adverb. Thus, it becomes hayakuhanasu + sugiru (speaks quickly + too much) = speaks too quickly

Ness

Ah thanks Ness, it does make sense. I guess I'm thinking too much in English where it is speak [too quickly] rather than quickly speak [too much]. So I kept thinking I had to write something like hayasugite hanasu...

bi-ru

ex #5711 in Japanese means "He talks too much."

bamboo4

Corrected. Thank you bamboo4

Miki

hayaku hanashisugiru could also be "to speak too soon" although I doubt it has the same colloquial meaning as in english.

Matt

sugiru is level 3 grammar point.its not in level 4

ramu

what if it is a na adjective? how do you add the sugiru then?

Burcksan

^ Yeah, I'd like to know this, too!

Himiko

na adjective is きれいな、元気な、ひまな correct? We don't say like きれいな過ぎる.
きれい過ぎる too beautiful 元気すぎる 暇すぎる ... sounds negative
とてもきれいな very beautiful とても元気な とても暇

Miki

One would not normally say "hanashisugiru" but would say "shaberisugiru" (しゃべり過ぎる）as in the example.

bambo4

It should be noted that you don't use the kanji for 〜すぎる because it is an auxiliary verb in this construct, and one should not use kanji for auxiliary verbs. Similarly, one does not say 食べて来た nor 読んで行った, but rather 食べてきた and 読んでいった.

TheoMurpse

Also, directed at Burcksan, 派手 is a na-adjective, so just look at ex #5716 for the answer.

TheoMurpse

I've been thinking about the "sugiru" issue for quite some time. And, talking to some native speakers, I was told that when expressing something like "to talk too fast", constructions like "早すぎて話す" are not quite possible and I was also told that things like あの人は早く話しぎる do mean “That person quickly speaks too much”, like bi-ru just said. So, to express the idea of talking too fast, the best construction would be something like 話すのが早すぎる. I would like to see some replies to this, thanks.

phbotelho

phbotelho: I think you're right.
While "早すぎて話す" is a bit odd and "早く話しすぎる" technically permissable, I think "話すのが早すぎる" feels the most natural. I'm not a native speaker though, so any native input on this?
At any rate, Google seems to back this up with the three phrases giving me 0, 32, and 2500 hits respectively, the latter being a roughly comparable number to the hits for the English "speaks too quickly".

mochabean