"difficulté" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /di.fi.kyl.te/ Audio: Fr-difficulté.ogg Forms: difficultés [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Middle French difficulté, from Old French difficulté, a borrowing from Latin difficultās. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|difficulté|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French difficulté, {{inh+|fr|frm|difficulté}} Inherited from Middle French difficulté, {{inh|fr|fro|difficulté}} Old French difficulté, {{der|fr|la|difficultās}} Latin difficultās Head templates: {{fr-noun|f|~}} difficulté f (countable and uncountable, plural difficultés)
  1. difficulty Tags: countable, feminine, uncountable Derived forms: difficultueux Related terms: difficile

Inflected forms

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