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How would I ask someone "How difficult was that?"

¿Qué tan difícil era?

¿Cuán difícil era?

¿Cuánto dificultad tenía eso?


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Related: spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/1279/… –  jrdioko Mar 1 '12 at 18:00
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To ask about the dificulty you can use any of these forms:

¿Cuánta dificultad tuvo?

¿Fue difícil?

¿Cómo fue de difícil?

¿Cómo de difícil fue?

As for the options you suggest:

¿Qué tan difícil era?* (incorrect)

This question is not gramatically correct to ask about the difficulty (it's more like an exclamation to express that the you don't think that it's as difficult as the other person said). You could say "¿Tan difícil era?" for something like "was it so difficult?", so it would be used when you already know that it was difficult.

¿Cuán difícil era?

It's correct, but "Cuán" is not very used nowadays, specially for questions.

¿Cuánto dificultad tenía eso?* (Incorrect)

Here you were close but "dificultad" is a femenine word so "Cuánto" has to agree with it in gender so it has to be "Cuánta".

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I would use:

¿Qué tan difícil fue?

¿Estuvo difícil?

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