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"difficult" in Dutch

moeilijk
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Summary

The Dutch translation for “difficult” is moeilijk.

Pronounced the same

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tough moeilijk

See also

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difficult lastig
difficult (inflected form) moeilijke
difficult (inflected form) lastige

Examples of "difficult" in use

There are 24 examples of the Dutch word for "difficult" being used:
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That isn’t difficult. Dat is niet moeilijk.
Maths is hard. Wiskunde is moeilijk.
This month was kind of difficult. Deze maand is enigszins moeilijk geweest.
It’s hard to tell you and your brother apart. Het is moeilijk u van uw broer te onderscheiden.
That was a difficult problem to foresee. Dat was een moeilijk te voorzien probleem.
I think it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a better system. Ik denk niet dat het al te moeilijk is een beter systeem te verzinnen.
hard to catch moeilijk te pakken
My boss told me I’m hard to approach. Mijn baas zei me dat ik moeilijk te benaderen ben.
His arrogant behaviour made it difficult to collaborate with him. Zijn verwaand gedrag maakte het moeilijk om met hem samen te werken.
The overwhelming noise of the crowd made communication difficult. Het overdonderende lawaai van de menigte maakte communicatie moeilijk.

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"difficult" Practice (24)
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At first, Tom thought French was difficult, but now he thinks it’s easy.,
But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.,
hard to catch,
His arrogant behaviour made it difficult to collaborate with him.,
I think it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a better system.,
If I have to show a lot of guts in the tests, it will be difficult.,
It’ll be difficult to glue the two pieces together.,
It’s hard to fight against what you can’t see.,
It’s hard to tell you and your brother apart.,
It’s very hard to get rid of the cockroaches in our house.,
Maths is hard.,
My boss told me I’m hard to approach.,
Reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.,
That isn’t difficult.,
That was a difficult problem to foresee.,
The distraction makes it difficult to focus.,
The future perfect tense can be difficult to conjugate in some languages.,
The gusts of wind made cycling hard.,
The narrow road between the trees was hard to navigate.,
The overwhelming noise of the crowd made communication difficult.
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Acknowledgements

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANl-moeilijk.ogg
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en