even if it isn't easy vs even when it isn't easy

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Even if it isn't easy' implies a hypothetical situation or condition, while 'even when it isn't easy' suggests a more certain or recurring situation. The choice between them depends on the specific context you want to convey.

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even if it isn't easy

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to express a hypothetical situation or condition.

This phrase is used to emphasize that something is challenging or difficult, but the speaker is willing to do it regardless of the difficulty.

Examples:

I will pursue my dream, even if it isn't easy.
Even if it isn't easy, I will always stand by your side.

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Even if it's not easy for you to understand.
We should give a helping hand to those regions which are behind, even if it is not easy in today's economic realities.
Particular attention is thus logically required on our part, and this has to be said, even if it is not easy.
There also needs to be active continued development of higher education in Europe, however, even if it is easy to acquire trained and educated people from elsewhere.
Those measures are many and varied, but it seems to me that, today, things would be clearer and more effective if we organised our priorities into a hierarchy and if we targeted the most urgent matters, even if it is not easy to do so.
Even if is not easy to demonstrate a causal relationship between liquidity and asset price trends, the availability of surplus liquidity must be one of the driving forces behind the obvious increase in asset prices.
Sure, people always want to put an easy label on things... even if it's meaningless.
That's why I said let's just take it easy, drink plenty of water, even if it's warm.
I would like to thank sincerely the shadow rapporteurs as well as the Commission and Council representatives for their intensive cooperation, even if it did not always make life easy for me.
Even if it meant selling your mother's soul.
Even if it means killing the hostages.
Even if it's not exactly like tv.
Even if it means eliminating 20,000 jobs.
If it seems gradual, even if it really is happening quickly, we're capable of just sitting there and not responding.
If it was me, I'd prefer the truth even if it's another girl.
Any regulations passed by the committee will remain on the statute book even if its powers are suspended, but Parliament can bite if it needs to.
Something emotional, even if it's anger.
Even if its covered in coffee grounds and miscellaneous DNA.
Then total acceptance of responsibility, even if it's not your fault.
Even if it affects those that love you.

Alternatives:

even though it isn't easy
even in difficult circumstances

even when it isn't easy

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to emphasize a certain or recurring situation that is challenging.

This phrase is used to highlight that something is difficult, but it is a regular occurrence or a known fact.

Examples:

I always try to stay positive, even when it isn't easy.
Even when it isn't easy, I know I can count on you.

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Even easy things are difficult now.
Of course, the road hasn't easy even after that.
Face 2 Face demonstrated that what we thought impossible was possible - and, you know what, even easy.
Even the easy things are hard.
Despite the enormous amount of work that the rapporteur, Mr Goepel, has put in, the aim has not been achieved and it is not even easy to say whether we are nearer to or further away from sensible solutions.
It wasn't all that easy even back then.
It has not been easy even in those circumstances.
Even though I am an engineer, it was not easy even for me to understand all the mechanisms.
But eventually, even killing people became easy.
Quarter mil, easy, even on a bad month.
I even think it's easy for them.
This book is so easy that even a child can read it.
A picture of a hotel, even yours, is easy to ignore.
You know, there are reasons they call this the Big Easy - even after Hurricane Katrina.
I couldn't even get my Easy Bake oven to work.
Maybe we won't even need, easy there, chief.
I don't know it was all that easy even back then.
Conducting monetary policy is not easy even in normal times, but with this unprecedented move from tried-and-tested national policies to a novel supranational one, it was particularly challenging.
It makes it very easy - even convenient - for hardliners in Havana to do this, supporting their view - driven by paranoia - that the whole world is against them.
So easy, even white people can learn!

Alternatives:

even in tough times
even during challenging moments

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even if it isn't easy vs even when it isn't easy