Grammatical class

Adverb

difficilement

with difficulty; difficultly

Details

Syllables

dif-fi-ci-le-ment

Phonetics

di.fi.si.lə.mɑ̃

Grammatical class

Adverb

Freq. (books)

4032

Freq. (movies)

7771

Freq. (news)

4797

Sentences

Je peux difficilement attendre l'été.

I can hardly wait until summer.

A1

Il arrive difficilement à écrire son nom.

He can scarcely write his name.

A1

Elle parle difficilement un mot d'anglais.

She spoke scarcely a word of English.

A1

On oublie très difficilement son premier amour.

It's hard to forget one's first love.

A1

Vous avez monté l'escalier en respirant très difficilement.

You went upstairs, breathing heavily.

A2

Ça semble difficilement juste.

That hardly seems fair.

B1

C'est difficilement envisageable.

That's hardly an option.

B1

J'ai trouvé votre maison difficilement.

I found your house with difficulty.

B1

Nous pouvons difficilement vivre avec ce salaire.

We can hardly keep alive on this salary.

B1

Je peux difficilement marcher.

I can hardly walk.

B2

Ce que l’on conçoit mal s’énonce difficilement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent en flamand.

What is poorly conceived is difficult to state, and the words to say it happen in Flemish.

C2