Daunting for is the more natural pattern when referring to the person facing difficulty. Daunting to is less common but may appear before someone affected by the feeling.
Use daunting for to describe something that seems difficult for a person or group: daunting for beginners. Daunting to can occur before a person, especially after it is, but it is less common.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use daunting for when focusing on the people affected by the challenge.
Daunting to is possible, especially with seem or be, but it is less common than daunting for.
Daunting often directly modifies nouns without a preposition.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Daunting for is usually more natural with groups or categories of people.
✕ The software is daunting to beginners. ✓ The software is daunting for beginners.Daunting can directly describe a noun.
✕ It was a daunting of task. ✓ It was a daunting task.Daunting describes something difficult or intimidating.
✕ The easy quiz was daunting. ✓ The difficult quiz was daunting.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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No. It is possible, but daunting for is more common in many contexts.
Usually daunting describes situations, tasks, or experiences rather than people.
No. Daunting often comes directly before a noun, such as daunting task.
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