difficult — English to French

How English difficult is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: difficult in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: difficult (86 943). By style: everyday 911 · literary 15 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 16 093 · legal and administrative 2 802 · UN documents 67 118.

difficile

Used about 65 358 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 835 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 12 070 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 102 · UN documents ≈ 50 338). Forms: difficile, difficiles.

• This word is difficult.

  Ce mot est difficile.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Evie and Mutusen · checked, community translation · #4404701 #4468756

• “That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron.

  --Ce n'est pas difficile, monsieur le baron.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31596

• He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

  Et Jésus répondit: Malheur à vous aussi, docteurs de la loi! Parce que vous chargez les hommes de fardeaux difficiles à porter, et que vous ne touchez pas vous-mêmes de l’un de vos doigts.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 11:46

• I appreciate that this is difficult.

  Je conçois que c' est difficile.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 221163

• Difficult to monitor individual changes.

  Il est difficile de suivre les évolutions individuelles.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4856635

très

Used about 690 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 671).

• That's not very difficult.

  Ce n'est pas très compliqué.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #7200396 #4860236

• I am very grateful to the Finnish Presidency for its readiness to play a very constructive role in this very difficult matter.

  Je remercie vivement la présidence finlandaise pour sa volonté de jouer un rôle très constructif dans ce problème très complexe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 846772

• Mr President, I should like to say thank you to Mr von Wogau who has expertly prepared a very well-considered report on this difficult issue.

  Permettez-moi, Monsieur le Président, de remercier M. von Wogau pour la compétence avec laquelle il a élaboré un rapport très pondéré sur cette question complexe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 285217

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• I find it difficult to express my meaning in words.

  J'éprouve de la difficulté à exprimer mon opinion en paroles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #250821 #797461

• We find it difficult to decide which one to buy.

  Pour nous, c'est pas facile de décider lequel acheter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and martin9 · checked, community translation · #37905 #1548960

• I found it difficult to make myself heard due to the noise.

  J'ai eu du mal à me faire entendre à cause du bruit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and Scott · checked, community translation · #274329 #431657

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