Illustration: Behind the television cabinet in a Japanese living room, two housemates try to trace a bewildering collection of cables between a television, game console, router and power strip.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

ややこしい

yayakoshii

complicated, confusing

Example sentences

  1. あの５人にんの関係かんけいは、ややこしい。

    The relationships among those five people are complicated.

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  2. やっとややこしい迷路めいろの外そとに出でられた。

    I finally found my way out of the confusing maze.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 君きみが援助えんじょを断ことわったので、事態じたいがややこしくなった。

    Your refusal to help complicated matters.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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