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Usages of facilis
Magistra dicit: "Hic liber facilis est, ille liber difficilis; tamen vos potestis multum discere."
The (female) teacher says: "This book is easy, that book is difficult; nevertheless you can learn a lot."
Discipuli diu in bibliotheca manent, quia discere volunt etiam ea quae difficilia sunt, non solum quae facilia sunt.
The students stay in the library for a long time, because they want to learn even the things that are difficult, not only the things that are easy.
In initio fabulae una pars facilis est, sed postea alia pars difficilior fit.
At the beginning of the story one part is easy, but later another part becomes more difficult.
Mater dicit initium itineris facile esse, sed partem viae prope finem saepe gravem fieri.
Mother says that the beginning of the journey is easy, but that the part of the road near the end often becomes difficult.
Haec res facilis videtur, sed difficilior est quam illa.
This thing seems easy, but it is more difficult than that one.
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