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/kɔ̃.pli.ke/

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Translation

complicated, complex

Word origin

Past participle of compliquer ('to complicate'), from Latin complicare ('to fold together'), from com- ('together') plus plicare ('to fold'). The same root gives English 'complicate' and 'complex'.

Origin
Latin
Root
complicare
English cognates
complicate, complex

Grammar

Femininecompliquée
Masc pluralcompliqués
Fem pluralcompliquées

Examples

Cette .

This situation is really too complicated.

.

He has a complicated relationship with his brother.

' .

Do not make things more complicated than they are.

C' laquelle .

It is a complicated question that I do not know how to answer.

.

The rules of this game are rather complicated.

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This word is part of lesson 26.