dificultad

/difikulˈtad/, [d̪i.fi.kul̪ˈt̪að̞]

difficulty


Noun dificultad f (plural dificultades)

  1. difficulty, trouble, problem, challenge, constraint, strenuousness, arduousness
  2. awkwardness
  3. hardship, challenge, plight, distress (plural)

Verb dificultad

  1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of dificultar.

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Examples
  • Encontró la escuela sin dificultad.

    He found the school without difficulty.

  • Respondieron a mis preguntas con dificultad.

    They answered my questions with difficulty.

  • Tom a veces tiene dificultad para comprender los sentimientos ajenos.

    Tom sometimes has trouble understanding other people's feelings.

  • He solucionado el problema no sin dificultad.

    I solved the problem not without difficulty.

  • Ella no tuvo dificultad en aprender el poema de memoria.

    She had no difficulty in learning the poem by heart.

  • En lugar de hacer que la dificultad parezca fácil, como debería hacer un artista profesional, lo que él hace es que la facilidad parezca difícil.

    Instead of making the difficult seem easy, as a professional entertainer should do, he actually makes the easy look difficult.

  • Posibles efectos secundarios incluyen visión borrosa y dificultad respiratoria.

    Possible side effects include blurred vision and shortness of breath.

  • La dificultad del idioma japonés impide que los extranjeros, a excepción de un puñado, tengan un acercamiento a la literatura japonesa en su idioma original.

    The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.

  • ¿Es consciente de la dificultad?

    Is he aware of the difficulty?

  • ¿Cómo superó la dificultad?

    How did you get over the difficulty?

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