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Meaning: [difficult in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/difficult/). - Ce n'est pas **difficile**. It isn't **difficult**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6118517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6118517) [\#4841800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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) ## 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hard/). - Ce n'est pas si **difficile**. It's not that **hard**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by thowas and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2648081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2648081) [\#4653388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](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 5336950) - Zones d ' accès **difficile** **Hard**-to-reach areas: ([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 30214709) ## very Used about 483 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 467). Meaning: [very in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/very/). - Nous allons devoir faire des choix très **difficiles**. We're going to have to make some **very** tough choices. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5707245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5707245) [\#5707947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5707947)) - C'est pourquoi nous sommes face à un choix **difficile**. For this reason we must weigh the matter up **very** carefully. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CM · checked, community translation · [\#243477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/243477) [\#391254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391254)) - C'était une période **difficile**. Les choses se sont arrangées depuis. That was a low point. Things have improved since then. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5294399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5294399) [\#8959484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8959484)) - Ce fut une course **difficile**. It was a tough race. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3821274](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3821274) [\#6309490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6309490)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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