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# hard

«hard» in Mova's school dictionary: **firm and not soft, like a rock or a nut** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (hard, harder, hardest); adverb (hard)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hard means firm and not soft, like a rock or a nut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#m1)

2) Hard means difficult, not easy: a hard question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#m2)

3) Hard as an adverb means with a lot of effort or force: work hard, push hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#m3)

4) Hard can also mean strict or unkind: be hard on someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: describes a task or a thing; hard and easy questions may be counted apart and added to the total. In science: diamonds are the hardest natural material; hard and soft materials. In life: hard work, a hard day, try hard. Phrases: work hard, try hard, hard work, hard to, hard-boiled egg, hard of hearing, hard drive.

### examples

- The test had 10 easy and 5 hard questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x1)
- He worked hard for 3 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x2)
- Hard candies cost 10 cents each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x3)
- The hardest puzzle has 500 pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x4)
- The ground was hard after the frost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x5)
- It is hard to wake up early in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x6)
- She tried hard and finished the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x7)
- Diamond is very hard and can cut glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x8)
- It rained hard all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/#x9)

### note

Opposite: soft (firm) or easy (difficult). Trap: «hardly» does not mean «in a hard way»; it means «almost not» (I could hardly see). A describing word; no clue to the operation. It may split items into groups.

### In the corpora

- [One worker alone has little power, but many together are much harder to ignore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/11/)
- [A credit score is a rating of how reliably someone pays; missing payments lowers it and makes borrowing harder and dearer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/18/)
- [Hard times are also when scammers strike, with messages that look urgent and real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/4/)
- [A rough patch is a hard time in a relationship, with more arguing or unhappiness, and many couples come through it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/10/)
- [A divorce can feel sad and also a relief, because a long, hard process is over.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/15-when-parents-separate/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.