What does difficoltà in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word difficoltà in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use difficoltà in Italian.

The word difficoltà in Italian means difficulty, problem, complication, difficulty, effort, hardship, objection, demur, with difficulty, financial difficulties, be in a hard place, be in difficulty, to put sticks in the wheels, level of difficulty, degree of difficulty, in difficulty, encounter difficulties, put in a difficult position, have no difficulty. To learn more, please see the details below.

Listen to pronunciation

Meaning of the word difficoltà

difficulty

sostantivo femminile (complessità)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La difficoltà di quell'esame era nota tra gli studenti.
The difficulty of that particular exam was known among the students.

problem, complication

sostantivo femminile (ostacolo, problema)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Enrico soffre di difficoltà respiratorie, dubito che parteciperà all'escursione.
Enrico suffers from respiratory problems; I doubt he'll participate in the excursion.

difficulty, effort

sostantivo femminile (sforzo, fatica)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La strada verso il successo è piena di difficoltà.
The road to success is full of difficulties.

hardship

sostantivo femminile (povertà, ristrettezza)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Aiutate i bambini in difficoltà.
Help the children with hardships.

objection, demur

sostantivo femminile (obiezione)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Giovanni sta sollevando una serie di difficoltà in merito alla questione.
Giovanni has been raising a number of objections regarding this issue.

with difficulty

financial difficulties

(plural noun: Noun always used in plural form--for example, "jeans," "scissors.")
Vedrai che ti riprenderai dalle difficoltà economiche di questo momento.

be in a hard place

be in difficulty

to put sticks in the wheels

level of difficulty, degree of difficulty

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

in difficulty

encounter difficulties

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")

put in a difficult position

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Non mi mettere in difficoltà con le tue richieste esose.
Don't put me in a difficult position with your excessive requests.

have no difficulty

Let's learn Italian

So now that you know more about the meaning of difficoltà in Italian, you can learn how to use them through selected examples and how to read them. And remember to learn the related words that we suggest. Our website is constantly updating with new words and new examples so you can look up the meanings of other words you don't know in Italian.

Do you know about Italian

Italian (italiano) is a Romance language and is spoken by about 70 million people, most of whom live in Italy. Italian uses the Latin alphabet. The letters J, K, W, X and Y do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, but they still appear in loanwords from Italian. Italian is the second most widely spoken in the European Union with 67 million speakers (15% of the EU population) and it is spoken as a second language by 13.4 million EU citizens (3%). Italian is the principal working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. An important event that helped to the spread of Italian was Napoleon's conquest and occupation of Italy in the early 19th century. This conquest spurred the unification of Italy several decades later and pushed the language of the Italian language. Italian became a language used not only among secretaries, aristocrats and the Italian courts, but also by the bourgeoisie.