"Ella hace un trabajo difícil."
Translation:She does a difficult job.
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I think, "She has a difficult job" would be a better translation. As a native English speaker I think it would be unusual for someone to say "She does a difficult job."
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I thought it said, She makes a job hard! Instead of she DOES a hard job.
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after reading the comment above I was wondering how would one say such a sentence. Thank you!
But interestingly, if you type in "she makes a job difficult" into SpanishDict translation it comes up "ella hace un trabajo dificil" for all three translations.
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Those automatic translators are not reliable, especially for more uncommon sentences.
Instead, you should use translation databases, even though they require a bit of puzzle work.
Thank you for posting this. You'd have to take the time to study all the examples. Unfortunately, I think a lot of us lazy humans are looking for a fast answer. Too bad Duo doesn't have a brief info section for phrases where literal translation doesn't work.
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I'd contend "she has a difficult job" ought to be an acceptable alternative bto the suggested (DL) response of " she does a difficult job". Anyone care to comment?
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It rejected "she is doing a difficult job" insisting on the simple past. Reported 8 July 2018.
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Ditto. Glad you reported it. We'll probably get it accepted in about a month.
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So trabajo cannot be translated as work and is counted as a faulty sentence ? Bizarre!
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If you wrote “do a difficult work,” then reading this thread will clarify why that response is not accepted. If you’re a native English speaker and that phrase truly sounds natural to you, you can make your case for it.
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You wouldn't even say "She does difficult work"? I can see finding "She does a difficult job" unnatural (although I personally do not), but "She does difficult work" I would have thought would be well within the range of normal across all varieties of English.
"earlier job was rejected for work"? Do you mean rejected as a translation of trabajo? Either "work" or "job" can be valid translations, and in many instances both could work, but one must be attentive to the context of the sentence.
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According to DL" work" is not an accepted translation for trabajo! Strange!
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That's not what the sentence wants to say. It's not her job that is difficult, but the task she's currently doing.
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"Ella hace difícil un trabajo" or "Ella dificulta un trabajo".
You need to remember that you can't make a noun-adjective combination in Spanish without having them connect. If you want to say "Does your friend speak English?" and you translate with "¿Habla tu amigo español?", you're suddenly at "Does your English friend speak?"
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I found all these examples in the wiktionary:
. Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
. We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
. There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
. We don't have much time. Let's get to work, piling up those sandbags.
I would say, trabajo meaning employment (Ella toene un trabajo difícil):
She has a difficult job.
I would say, trabajo meaning task: (Ella hace un trabajo difícil)
She does a difficult work or she is doing a difficult work.
I do not understand why DL does not accept work.
But I am not native neither in English nor in Spanish.
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In all these examples, "work" is used without any article. It should be the same in this sentence: "She does difficult work".
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Why not just say, "Ella tiene un trabajo dificil"? Use of "hacer" in this context can obviously lead to confusion.
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It isn't confusing to Spanish speakers. Tener is about the job she has. Hacer is about the work she's currently doing.
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You don't DO a difficult JOB, you DO a difficult WORK ! I can understand that the English translator, indeed HAS A DIFFICULT JOB
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Maybe in the US (I don't know), but in the UK, you certainly "do a difficult job" and don't "do a difficult work". (You might, however, "do difficult work".)
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Have you never heard the command "Do your job!!!!!!? Now I can't find anything wrong with adding a modifier - difficult- in there.
