Learn Italian: Questi traumi non sono facili da superare. - These traumas are not easy to overcome.

The word trauma is a masculine noun of Greek origin. Even though it ends in -a in the singular (il trauma), it belongs to a special group of masculine nouns that take an -i in the plural (i traumi). Because it is masculine, the demonstrative adjective also has to be masculine plural, which is why we use questi.

Why does facile change to facili here?

Adjectives in Italian must agree in both gender and number with the noun they describe. Since traumi is plural, the adjective facile must also be plural. Remember that adjectives ending in -e in the singular always change to -i in the plural, regardless of whether the noun is masculine or feminine.

Why do we use da before superare instead of a different preposition?

When an adjective describes how easy, difficult, or impossible it is to do an action to a noun, Italian uses the preposition da before the infinitive verb. This is a common pattern: just like facili da superare (easy to overcome), you will see phrases like difficile da capire (hard to understand) or bello da vedere (beautiful to look at).

Does superare only mean to overcome in an emotional sense?