こんなん
Meanings
Adjective (な)
Noun
1. difficulty; hardship; trouble; distress
2. infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
Kanji used
distressed
difficult
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
labored breathing; laboured breathing; dyspnea; dyspnoea
to be extremely difficult; to present a major challenge
difficult to obtain; difficult to get
Examples (83 in total)
It was very difficult.
He had trouble breathing.
A new difficulty has arisen.
A new difficulty presented itself.
Some unexpected difficulties have arisen.
I know this is hard.
Our teacher will give us difficult problems.
He is used to hard work.
Life is, at best, a sea of troubles.
We are in a difficult situation.
Tom seems to be having a little difficulty.
That's a problem difficult to solve.
Doctors have a difficult problem.
This mountain is difficult to climb.
They brought trouble on themselves.
We encountered many difficulties.
I had no difficulty breaking the lock.
You must overcome the difficulties.
I owe it to my mother that I was able to overcome my difficulties.
We are faced with many difficulties.
The typhoon made that difficult.
We met with an unexpected difficulty.
Tom was in trouble financially.
We are engaged in a difficult task.
It was difficult to carry out the plan.
I found it difficult to understand what he was saying.
We always begin with the hardest problems.
Explain to him the difficult situation you are in.
It was difficult for us to decide which one to buy.
He can't cope with difficult situations.
We must get over this difficulty.
We shall overcome all our difficulties.
It is difficult for him to buy a car.
He went through many hardships in his youth.
I owe it to Mr Smith that I was able to overcome my difficulties.
Is this the only difficulty in the way?
He could get over every difficulty.
There lie many difficulties before us.
It is difficult to adapt oneself to sudden changes of temperature.
It was hard for him to live on his small pension.
These items are rather hard to obtain.
We need a spirit of enterprise to overcome the difficulty.
I thought it difficult to do the work alone.
He told us he had gone through many hardships.
The plan has many practical difficulties.
Since her father's death, she has gone through a lot of hardships.
He is aware that the work is difficult.
It was hard for me to refuse his request.
It was difficult for him to hide his pride in his success.
I'm having trouble reading the letters on the monitor.
You have to go through many hardships.
George is reluctant to take on that difficult job.
It was difficult to live on his meager earnings.
Mary has a bad back. It's hard for her to lift things.
Great difficulties stand in the way of its achievement.
At the time, our country was confronted with serious economic difficulties.
The city was put in a difficult financial situation.
The problem is how we cope with the present difficulties.
Although it is a very difficult task, I will do my best.
It is difficult to break the vicious circle of wages and prices.
It's difficult for our income to keep up with inflation.
Whether it may be hard or not, I must do it.
We found it difficult to walk in the deep snow.
Travelling was much more difficult in those days.
When he got into trouble, he turned to his parents for help.
It seems that there is no way out of our difficulty.
We're confident that you are up to the challenge of the new position.
Everybody in this world has to cope with a lot of difficulties.
This will mean that growing food will become difficult.
These patients have difficulty walking.
The transition from farm life to city life is often difficult.
The governor is capable of handling his current difficulties.
He is never discouraged, no matter what difficulties he may face.
Many countries are having difficulties in the economic sphere.
I know the situation is very difficult for us.
After a lot of problems she managed to learn to drive a car.
Human beings seem to find it difficult to give up their old habits.
They don't know what difficulties Tom went through in his youth.
It is very difficult for anybody to be objective about his own character.
Peter overcame a lot of difficulties before succeeding as a doctor.
It would be difficult to improve the device without an effective catalyst.
I wish you would tell me what I ought to do in this difficult situation.
It is difficult to speak three languages.