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صُعُوبَة
difficulty /sˤuˈʕuːba/
nounA2#1354 most common
Also: hardship, trouble, hardness
Example sentences
هَذِهِ صُعُوبَة كَبِيرَة.
This is a big difficulty.
أَجِدُ صُعُوبَة فِي الْقِرَاءَة.
I have difficulty with reading.
وَاجَهْتُ صُعُوبَة فِي فَهْمِ الدَّرْسِ.
I faced difficulty in understanding the lesson.
تَزْدَادُ صُعُوبَة الِامْتِحَانِ كُلَّ سَنَة.
The difficulty of the exam increases every year.
رَغْمَ الصُّعُوبَة، أَكْمَلَ الْمَشْرُوعَ فِي الْوَقْتِ الْمُحَدَّد.
Despite the difficulty, he finished the project on time.
لَا يُمْكِنُ الِاسْتِهَانَةُ بِصُعُوبَةِ اتِّخَاذِ مِثْلِ هَذَا الْقَرَارِ الْمَصِيرِيّ.
The difficulty of making such a fateful decision cannot be underestimated.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صُعُوبَةٌ | صُعُوبَاتٌ |
| Genitive | صُعُوبَةٍ | صُعُوبَاتٍ |
| Accusative | صُعُوبَةً | صُعُوبَاتٍ |
| Vocative | صُعُوبَةُ | صُعُوبَاتُ |
Word family
صَعْبdifficult, hard
صَعُبَto be or become difficult
صُعُوبَاتdifficulties
أَصْعَبharder, hardestاِسْتَصْعَبَto find something difficult
Etymology
صُعُوبَة is the abstract noun from the root ص-ع-ب, which carries the sense of being hard or hard to manage. It is built on the فُعُولَة (fuʿūla) pattern, which Arabic uses to form nouns of quality. The same root gives صَعْب, meaning difficult, and once described an animal too wild to ride.
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