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[edit] Etymology
From difficulty, from Middle English difficultee, from Old French difficulte, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
difficult (comparative more difficult, superlative most difficult)
- hard, not easy, requiring much effort
- hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome; eg. said of a person, a horse, etc.
- Stop being difficult and eat your broccoli - you know it's good for you.
[edit] Usage notes
Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or physical skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the doer; as, a difficult task. Thus, "hard" is not always synonymous with difficult: Other examples include a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage by an author.
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[edit] Translations
hard, not easy
- Arabic: صعب (ar) (Sa3b)
- Moroccan Arabic: واعر (wa3r)
- Armenian: դժվար (hy) (džvar), բարդ (hy) (bard), ծանր (hy) (çanr)
- Bulgarian: труден (bg), мъчен (bg)
- Catalan: difícil (ca) m. and f.
- Cebuano: lisud
- Chamicuro: yeewa
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 難 (nan4), 困難 (kwan3 nan4);
- Mandarin: 難 (cmn), 难 (cmn) (nán), 困難 (cmn), 困难 (cmn) (kùnnán), 艱難 (cmn), 艰难 (cmn) (jiānnán)
- Crimean Tatar: qıyın
- Czech: obtížný (cs) m.
- Dutch: lastig (nl), moeilijk (nl)
- Esperanto: malfacila (eo)
- Estonian: keeruline (et)
- Faroese: torførur (fo)
- Finnish: vaikea (fi), hankala (fi)
- French: difficile (fr)
- German: schwer (de), schwierig (de)
- Greek: δύσκολος (el) (dúskolos)
- Gujarati: કઠિન (kaṭhina)
- Haitian Creole: difisil
- Hebrew: קשה (he) (qasheh), מסובך (he) (mesubbakh)
- Hindi: मुश्किल (hi) (muśkil), विकट (hi) (vikaṭ), कठिन (hi) (kaṭhin)
- Ido: desfacila
- Interlingua: difficile
- Italian: difficile (it)
- Japanese: 難しい (ja) (むずかしい, muzukashii), 困難な (ja) (こんなんな, konnan-na)
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- Korean: 어렵다 (ko) (eoryeopda)
- Kurdish: زهحمهت (ku) (zehmet), گران (ku) (giran), سهخت (ku) (sext)
- Latin: difficilis (la)
- Latvian: sarežģīts (lv)
- Norwegian: vanskelig (no)
- Old English: earfoþe (ang)
- Persian: دشوار (fa) (došvâr), مشکل (fa) (moškel), سخت (fa) (saxt), صعب (fa) (sa'b)
- Polish: trudny (pl) m., trudna (pl) f., trudne (pl) n.
- Portuguese: difícil (pt)
- Punjabi: ਕਠਿਨ (kaṭhin)
- Romanian: greu, difícil, anevoios, complicat
- Russian: трудный (ru) (trúdnyj) m., тяжёлый (ru) (tjažólyj)
- Sanskrit: अलभ्य (alabhya)
- Scottish Gaelic: doirbh, mì-fhurasda, cruaidh, trom, duilich
- Spanish: difícil (es)
- Swedish: svår (sv)
- Telugu: కఠినమైన (kaThinamaina), కష్టమైన (kashTamaina)
- Thai: ยาก (th) (yark)
- Turkish: zor (tr), güç (tr)
- Ukrainian: важкий (uk) (važkyj), трудний (uk) (trúdnyj)
- Urdu: مشکل (ur) (muśkil), دشوار (ur) (duśvār), کٹھن (ur) (kaṭhin)
- Vietnamese: khó (vi)
- Welsh: anodd
- West Frisian: swier (fy)
- Yiddish: שווער (yi) (shver), האַרב (yi) (harb)
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