～がち: "Tend to ○○"

Introduction

Welcome to がち land, where we'll all learn to love and worship the two-kana glory that is 「～がち」. Well, maybe not love and worship, maybe just tolerate, but... oh well, let's just get on with it.

I tend to mess things up: ～がち

構成こうせい

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  Verb stem/nounがち

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  Noun(の・な)がち
  Example:
  → 彼かれは大切たいせつなことを忘わすれがちだ。
  "He tends to forget important things.”

がち (very rarely written in kanji as 勝がち) is a suffix that attaches to stem form verbs or nouns and indicates a negative tendency of some sort. This can refer to a person, place, or thing. Just make sure it's a negative tendency, as ～がち doesn't tend to be used for positive inclinations.