Showing suitability for someone
Use convenient for when something fits a person's schedule, needs, or situation.
Convenient for and convenient to are both correct, but they are used with different meanings and sentence patterns.
Use convenient for to show suitability for a person, purpose, or activity. Use convenient to before a person when talking about ease or comfort, or before a place when meaning easy to reach.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use convenient for when something fits a person's schedule, needs, or situation.
Convenient for can also describe something useful for a task or activity.
Convenient to is often used before a person in formal English to mean easy or suitable for them.
Convenient to can describe a location that is easy to reach from another place.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
For is preferred before activities and purposes.
✕ This bag is convenient to travel. ✓ This bag is convenient for travel.Convenient to is common with places and also possible with people in formal style.
✕ The office is convenient for the airport. ✓ The office is convenient to the airport.Use convenient to do something, not convenient for do something.
✕ It is convenient for pay online. ✓ It is convenient to pay online.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It is correct and slightly more formal than convenient for me in many contexts.
Convenient for is especially common with times and arrangements.
Yes. You can say it is convenient to use or convenient to carry.
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