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Y a-t-il des **difficultés** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6849904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6849904) [\#4894097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4894097)) - He extricated Cosette from all **difficulties**. Il tira Cosette de toutes les **difficultés**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29198) - There are **difficulties** in very specific areas. Des **difficultés** existent dans des domaines précis. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1013555) - of the **difficulties** below des **difficultés** ci-dessous ([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 2148095) - C. Factors and **difficulties** impeding the implementation of the Covenant C. Facteurs et **difficultés** entravant l ' application du Pacte ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10636146) ## problèmes Used about 4 202 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 305 · UN documents ≈ 3 510). - These are serious **difficulties**. Ce sont de graves **problèmes**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by halfb1t and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2082688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2082688) [\#2081396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2081396)) - A project must never fail to be implemented as a result of **difficulties** in communication. Il n'est pas possible que des **problèmes** de dialogue entre les différentes parties empêche la réalisation d'un projet. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 8329) - Exit from housing **difficulties** (OPTIONAL) Fin des **problèmes** de logement (FACULTATIF) ([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 4263364) - The report also drew attention to **difficulties** with health services, such as a shortage of doctors and facilities. Le rapport rappelle également les **problèmes** que connaissent les services de santé, tels que la pénurie de médecins et l ' insuffisance de locaux. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 16981427) - At the time, our country was confronted with serious economic **difficulties**. À cette époque, notre pays était confronté à de graves **problèmes** économiques. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#279935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279935) [\#129576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129576)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - With her small income she is having **difficulties** getting by. Avec son maigre revenu, elle a du mal à joindre les deux bouts. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6703981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6703981) [\#6916896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6916896)) - When my husband died, I had a lot of **difficulties** keeping my chin up. Quand mon mari est mort, j'ai eu beaucoup de mal à garder le moral. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#318700](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/318700) [\#9945202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9945202)) - The real estate project is facing **difficulties**. Le projet immobilier a du plomb dans l'aile. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14065154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14065154) [\#14065152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14065152)) ## 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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