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

  1. Choosing the winner was a difficult task.
  2. The exam questions were too difficult.
  3. [it is difficult to do something] : It’s difficult to say what time I will get home.
  4. Her behaviour became increasingly difficult to understand.
  5. [difficult for] : Talking to teenagers can be difficult for parents.
  6. [find something difficult (to do)] : Ella finds the children very difficult to cope with.
  7. [make it difficult to do something] : Her age made it difficult to get another job.
  8. She had a difficult childhood.
  9. Helping people who are in difficult circumstances
  10. Martin was a difficult baby.
  11. Evenings are difficult – how about the morning?