Dictionary entry
Difficult
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lt/
Pronunciation
/ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lt/
Myanmar Meaning
(adj) ခက်ခဲ
Definition
difficult /'dÇfÇkǝlt/ adj ၁။ (က) ~ ( to do sth ) ခက္ေသာ။ မလြယ္ေသာ။ ခဲယဥ္းေသာ။ a difficult problem/language/translation ❍ She finds it difficult to stop smoking. ❍ This mountain is difficult to climb/It is difficult to climb this mountain. (ခ) ျပႆနာရိွေသာ။ အက်ပ္ေတြ႕ေသာ။ ခဲယဥ္းေစေသာ။ Their refusal puts us in a difficult position. ❍ They made it difficult for me to see her. ❍ Thirteen is a difficult age (ie Children have problems then). ၂။ ထိန္းသိမ္းရခက္ေသာ။ ဆက္ဆံရခက္ေသာ။ ေၾကးမ်ား ေသာ။ ေၾကးထူေသာ။ a difficult child/customer/boss ❍ Don't take any notice of her–she's just being difficult.
Examples
- Choosing the winner was a difficult task.
- The exam questions were too difficult.
- [it is difficult to do something] : It’s difficult to say what time I will get home.
- Her behaviour became increasingly difficult to understand.
- [difficult for] : Talking to teenagers can be difficult for parents.
- [find something difficult (to do)] : Ella finds the children very difficult to cope with.
- [make it difficult to do something] : Her age made it difficult to get another job.
- She had a difficult childhood.
- Helping people who are in difficult circumstances
- Martin was a difficult baby.
- Evenings are difficult – how about the morning?