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Why JLPT N4 learners mix up できるだけ (できるだけ, “if at all possible, as much as possible”) and 不便 (ふべん, “inconvenience”).
A learner might confuse these when discussing constraints. Both 'できるだけ' (as much as possible) and '不便' (inconvenient) often appear in conversations about trying to manage difficult or limited situations.
On JLPT N4, this pair shows up as a vocabulary meaning question. You see one word and pick its English equivalent from four options — one of which will be the other word in this pair, chosen as a distractor precisely because of the overlap.
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