What do they call French toast in France? (And other similar questions)
Read moreIn English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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dificultarthe progress of the work was hindered by bad weather — el mal tiempo dificultó / entorpeció el progreso de las obras- I don't intend to let this hinder my promotion — no pienso dejar que esto impida que me asciendan
- He's hindered by the revival of a gift he had in childhood.
- I am more able to work things out now but sometimes the flashbacks hinder me.
- Will this not hinder other children and slow down progress as a whole?
- Howard was a hard man on Home Office issues but it hindered him at the polls.
- At least the latter should not hinder him anymore.
- Or should it simply get out of the way and stop hindering fathers who want to do right by their children?
- We had planned to be in a new building by this stage, but bureaucracy has hindered us.
- Here again, Robinson is hindered rather than helped by one of his own.
- The only thing that was hindering me was my ankle.
- Blind faith in an over-subscribed, vainglorious myth will only hinder you.
- ‘Financial concerns are the number one thing hindering me from having another baby,’ said Claire, a commercial property agent.
- On the road, Colin meets various 2D comedy locals who help and hinder him in his travels.
- Three factors complicate the abortion question and hinder us from reaching a national consensus.
- At times there are other things that hinder you in granting that wish.
- Once again my complete inability to draw a straight line is hindering me.
- To a country boy only seven years old it is terrifying, but Jack is determined his handicap is not going to hinder him.
- In retrospect, he can see that far from hindering him the college authorities gave him every assistance.
- The car park in Kew Foot Road is often full, hindering patients who have no other choice but to drive there as they are not fully mobile.
- He won't do anything that will hinder him as a player, and he will do nothing that reduces his standing as a man.
- The most recent campaigns have moved the anti-walker argument on again, to claim that baby-walkers hinder normal child development.
Further reading
12 ways to say goodbye in other languages
Find out moreEnglish has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
55 words ending in ‘ster’ you didn’t know you needed to know
Find out moreMany words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
