difficulté

• IPA^(key): /di.fi.kyl.te/

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difficulté f (plural difficultés)

1. difficulty

• difficile
• en difficulté - in difficulty

• “difficulté” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

difficulté f (plural difficultez)

1. difficulty

Directly from Latin difficultas.

difficulté f (oblique plural difficultez, nominative singular difficulté, nominative plural difficultez)

1. difficulty
   • 1239, author and title uncertain

     Seroient tenu a rendre sanz difficulté et sanz contredit

     They will be undertaken to be given without difficulty and without objection

• English: difficulty (borrowed)
• French: difficulté