Borrowed from Latin difficultāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [di.fi.kulˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.fi.kulˈtaɾ]

dificultar (first-person singular present dificulto, first-person singular preterite dificultí, past participle dificultat)

1. (transitive) to hinder, to make difficult
2. (transitive) to interfere with

• dificultós

• difícil
• dificultat

• “dificultar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “dificultar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “dificultar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dificultar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin difficultāre.

• Hyphenation: di‧fi‧cul‧tar

dificultar (first-person singular present dificulto, first-person singular preterite dificultei, past participle dificultado)

1. (transitive) to hinder (to make a task difficult)

   Synonym: frustrar

• dificuldade

• “dificultar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin difficultāre.

• IPA^(key): /difikulˈtaɾ/ [d̪i.fi.kul̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: di‧fi‧cul‧tar

dificultar (first-person singular present dificulto, first-person singular preterite dificulté, past participle dificultado)

1. (transitive) to make difficult, to hamper, to hinder, to impede, to complicate

• “dificultar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10