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Forms: difficile, difficiles. - This word is **difficult**. Ce mot est **difficile**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Evie and Mutusen · checked, community translation · [\#4404701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4404701) [\#4468756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7200396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7200396) [\#4860236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#250821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250821) [\#797461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/797461)) - We find it **difficult** to decide which one to buy. Pour nous, c'est pas facile de décider lequel acheter. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#37905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37905) [\#1548960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#274329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274329) [\#431657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/431657)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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