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Forms: difficulties, difficulty. - Y a-t-il des **difficultés** ? Are there any **difficulties**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6849904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6849904) [\#4894097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4894097)) - Il tira Cosette de toutes les **difficultés**. He extricated Cosette from all **difficulties**. ([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) - Soyons conscients, les uns et les autres, des **difficultés**. Let us all be aware of the **difficulties**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1117026) - EXISTENCE DE **DIFFICULTÉS** GRAVES EXISTENCE OF SERIOUS **DIFFICULTIES** ([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 4890647) - Ici les **difficultés** d ' évaluation sont multiples : 39. Here, the **difficulties** of making an assessment are manifold: ([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 6880406) ## challenges Used about 34 831 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 164 · UN documents ≈ 34 667). - Ces exemples ne montrent que trop bien que l'intégration mondiale des marchés financiers entraîne des **difficultés** pour l'Europe aussi. This illustrates all too well that the global integration of financial markets poses **challenges** for Europe too. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1012433) - Nous nous heurtons à d ' autres **difficultés** également. We have other **challenges** as well. ([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 20039922) - III. Progrès, meilleures pratiques, **difficultés** et contraintes III. Achievements, best practices, **challenges** and constraints ([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 24063924) - **Difficultés** liées à la participation du public: les États-Unis d ' Amérique Public participation **challenges**: United States of America ([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 28023752) - Le Secrétaire général fait clairement savoir dans son rapport qu ' il reste des **difficultés** considérables à surmonter. The Secretary-General makes it clear in his report that immense **challenges** still lie ahead. ([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 11589586) ## problems Used about 5 934 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 148 · legal and administrative ≈ 448 · UN documents ≈ 4 333). - C'est facile de donner des conseils quand on n'a jamais eu de **difficultés**. It's easy to give advice when you've never had any **problems**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9664422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9664422) [\#8365555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8365555)) - **Difficultés** économiques, politiques et sociales. I wish to offer my warm congratulations to Mrs Schaffner for attempting to provide answers and propose solutions to these **problems**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1831378) - les raisons et les éventuelles **difficultés** de mise en œuvre justifiant la modification; the reasons and any implementation **problems** justifying the change; ([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 1096624) - Le fonctionnement régulier des institutions démocratiques ne va pas cependant sans **difficultés**. The normal functioning of a democratic institutional framework is not without its **problems**. ([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 4834126) - Au début, notre système informatique a eu quelques **difficultés**, mais maintenant celles-ci sont réglées. Initially we had some **problems** with our computer system, but they've been sorted out now. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Whiskkebarr · checked, community translation · [\#23469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23469) [\#523632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/523632)) ## financial Used about 4 451 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 112 · UN documents ≈ 4 333). Meaning: [financial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/financial/). - Ils se voient confrontés à des **difficultés** financières. They are facing **financial** problems. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#680956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680956) [\#968517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/968517)) - Le concurrent affirme que si la modification de l’offre avait été dénuée de **difficultés** techniques, commerciales et financières, cette réaction aurait été plus rapide. The competitor points out that if supply-side switching did not involve technical, commercial and **financial** barriers, this response would have been quicker. ([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 1975902) - Confrontés comme nous le sommes à ces **difficultés** financières, politiques et contextuelles, nous conclurons par un dernier appel. Confronted as we are by **financial**, political and contextual predicaments, allow me to conclude with a final call. ([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 21643931) - Le changement climatique, la guerre civile, les **difficultés** financières et le chaos des infrastructures, ont tous causé des bouleversements dans ce pays. Climate change, civil war, **financial** hardship, and infrastructural chaos have all caused turmoil in this country. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Vanilla · checked, community translation · [\#3153004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3153004) [\#4884255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4884255)) - La situation actuelle de l ' Organisation des Nations Unies, fortement mise à contribution alors qu ' elle connaît de graves **difficultés** financières, interdit tout nouveau retard ou toute proscrastination. Furthermore, the demands on the United Nations and its critical **financial** constraints preclude any further delay or procrastination. ([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 439636) ## many Used about 333 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 328). Meaning: [many in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/many/). - Beaucoup d'élèves ont des **difficultés** en maths et en sciences. **Many** students struggle with math and science. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5529386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5529386) [\#12457317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12457317)) - La commission a entendu de nombreuses personnes qui ont investi chez Equitable Life et qui ont perdu d’importantes sommes d’argent, cette perte leur ayant causé d’énormes **difficultés**. The committee has heard from **many** people who invested in Equitable Life and who have lost a great deal of money, which has caused them great hardship. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 832564) - Nous aurons de nombreuses **difficultés** à surmonter dans le futur. He'll have **many** hardships to go through in the future. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and CM · checked, community translation · [\#299524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/299524) [\#132602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132602)) - En effet, le gouvernement a éprouvé de grandes **difficultés** à surmonter les questions relatives à la désignation de sites, en raison des droits de propriété contenus dans notre constitution. Indeed our written constitution with protection for property rights has proved very difficult for the government to get over **many** of the issues in relation to designation of sites. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 24961) ## overcome Used about 328 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 328). Meaning: [overcome in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/overcome/). - Tous les pays de cette région ont des chemins de différentes longueurs à parcourir et nous devons les aider à surmonter leurs **difficultés**. All the countries in the region have different distances to cover and we must help them to **overcome** their problems. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1309918) - La compétence dans l'utilisation des médias doit donc aider les citoyens à surmonter ces **difficultés** et à devenir des utilisateurs avertis des médias. Literacy in the use of media devices must help people **overcome** these challenges and help them become savvy media users. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1179028) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il éprouve des **difficultés** à se souvenir des noms. He has trouble remembering names. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1258676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1258676) [\#1259576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1259576)) - Il éprouvait des **difficultés** dans ses études. He was having a hard time with his studies. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8680454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8680454) [\#13325520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13325520)) - Les approvisionnements ne posèrent pas de **difficultés**. Supplies were no problem. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#804280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804280) [\#1156662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1156662)) ## 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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