difficile — French to English

How French difficile is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: difficile (72 054), difficiles (23 767). By style: everyday 1 553 · literary 19 · biblical 18 · parliamentary 14 940 · legal and administrative 2 877 · UN documents 76 414.

difficult

Used about 75 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 922 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 12 450 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 158 · UN documents ≈ 59 698). Meaning: difficult in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce n'est pas difficile.

  It isn't difficult.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #6118517 #4841800

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

  “That is not difficult, Monsieur le Baron.

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

• 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.

  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.

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

• Le travail a été difficile.

  The work has been difficult.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 130698

• Il est difficile de suivre les évolutions individuelles.

  Difficult to monitor individual changes.

  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

hard

Used about 3 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 356 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 8 · legal and administrative ≈ 240 · UN documents ≈ 3 184). Meaning: hard in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce n'est pas si difficile.

  It's not that hard.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by thowas and CK · checked, community translation · #2648081 #4653388

• --Est-ce très difficile à obtenir, les places de médecin sur un transatlantique?

  “Is it very hard to get a place as medical man on board a Transatlantic liner?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2120

• Nous avons beaucoup à dire là-dessus, et des choses difficiles à expliquer, parce que vous êtes devenus lents à comprendre.

  About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 5:11

• Il est donc difficile de soutenir que, en tant que fournisseur, CFR Infrastructură dépendait de façon importante de CFR Marfă.

  Therefore, the substantial dependence of CFR Infrastructură on supplies towards CFR Marfă’s is hard to sustain.

  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 5336950

• Zones d ' accès difficile

  Hard-to-reach areas:

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 30214709

very

Used about 483 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 467). Meaning: very in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Nous allons devoir faire des choix très difficiles.

  We're going to have to make some very tough choices.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · #5707245 #5707947

• C'est pourquoi nous sommes face à un choix difficile.

  For this reason we must weigh the matter up very carefully.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1794602

• Mais cela devient de plus en plus difficile dans ce climat très tendu.

  But it becomes more and more complicated in this very rigid atmosphere.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1026770

• La Grèce mérite le respect car son gouvernement a pris des décisions très difficiles.

  Greece should be respected for taking some very tough decisions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1398359

More sentences

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

• Ne te moque pas d'une personne en situation difficile.

  Don't laugh at a person in trouble.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CM · checked, community translation · #243477 #391254

• C'était une période difficile. Les choses se sont arrangées depuis.

  That was a low point. Things have improved since then.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #5294399 #8959484

• Ce fut une course difficile.

  It was a tough race.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3821274 #6309490

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