- konnan difficulty, hardship, trouble, distress; infeasibility, inability (to carry out)
Use 困難 in formal or written Japanese for serious, objective difficulty, not casual everyday troubles.
この問題は非常に困難です。
Kono mondai wa hijō ni konnan desu.
This problem is extremely difficult.
困難を乗り越えて成功した。
Konnan o norikoete seikō shita.
He overcame difficulties and succeeded.
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