"Ella hace un trabajo difícil."
Translation: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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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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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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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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According to DL" work" is not an accepted translation for trabajo! Strange!
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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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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.
