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I was wondering what the meaning of 通じづらい is, and how it was conjugated.

I know づらい means "difficult" or "hard to" but I can't find the exact meaning
of 通じ.

Here is the sentence. The context is that they are talking about how a person
didn't use their phone. Someone remarks:

> 携帯あんだろ？ 通じづらいんだよ。

Please explain how this was conjugated.
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What's the meaning of 通じづらい, and how was it conjugated?
There are a few different elements, so I'll try to break them down for you.

The first sentence

> 携帯あんだろ ？

is a very casual/colloquial way of saying

> 携帯（が）あるんだろう？

In other words, they are asking (semi-rhetorically) whether they have their
phone.

As for their second sentence, 通じる is a verb which can mean 'communicate' or
'get through' (amongst others), which suits this context well.

づらい (as you note) is a suffix that means "hard to" or "difficult to". It is
appended to the "base" of the verb (more formally, the 連用形 of the verb); for
通じる, the 連用形 is 通じ. So, here, you get a meaning of 'hard to communicate' or
'hard to get through'.

The んだ is adding emphasis (see [this
post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/5398/what-is-the-meaning-
of-%EF%BD%9E%E3%82%93%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99-%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0-etc)), and
the よ is further strengthening the statement by making it exclamatory.

From what you've said as context, therefore, it sounds like the character
speaking is a bit irritated that they weren't able to get through to the other
person before, and is scolding them a bit. I'd translate both sentences into
natural English as something like:

> You have your mobile phone, don't you? You're so hard to get hold of.
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