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Diffizil is bildungssprachlich and not common vocabulary. Translating schwer as difficult or hard is fine.
by blattimwind 7y ago
Diffizil is bildungssprachlich and not common vocabulary. Translating schwer as difficult or hard is fine.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoYes, I'm aware. But, just like diffizil is a more formal word, so is difficult. Colloquially, people routinely say hard in English, as in hard problem to solve.
- juanbarca 7y agoBoth of you are correct (I'm a German tutor (over here: https://lingoci.com/german-lessons-skype) https://lingoci.com/german-lessons-skype)).
- tpush 7y agoDifficult is a common word in English, and I bet most Germans have never heard nor read the word „diffizil“. Translating „difficult“ to „diffizil“ would be a poor translation IMO.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThat might explain why Google Translate doesn't seem to know it. I know the word and I'm only semifluent in German, so it would never occur to me that it was anything seriously obscure. (Though this is also tangential and has no real bearing on whether or not to translate the book title as difficult or hard. I would have translated it as hard if someone asked me for some reason.)