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ややこしい (yayakoshii)

puzzling, tangled, complicated, complex

  • JLPT N1
  • Pitch 4
  • #8466 most frequent

Meaning

ややこしい (yayakoshii) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “puzzling, tangled, complicated, complex”.

Example sentences 9

この仕事しごとはややこしいですね

This work is complicated.

文法ぶんぽうはとてもややこしい。

Grammar is very complicated.

彼らはとてもややこしいです。

They are very puzzling.

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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