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# complexes — French to English

How French *complexes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: complexes (25 065). By style: everyday 20 · parliamentary 1 464 · legal and administrative 1 625 · UN documents 21 956.

## complex

Used about 21 611 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 1 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 591 · UN documents ≈ 18 754). Forms: complex, complexes, complicated. Meaning: [complex in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/complex/).

- Les ordinateurs sont des outils **complexes**.
  Computers are **complex** tools.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LdjuherTaqvaylit and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13017414](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017414) [\#13017412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13017412))

- Les sujets eux-mêmes étaient **complexes**.
  The issues themselves were **complex**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2041938)

- Nitrures de silicium simples ou **complexes**;
  Single or **complex** nitrides of silicon;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 957005)

- Les PGI sont extrêmement **complexes**.
  5. ERP systems are considerably **complex**.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27116458)

- Les relations humaines sont **complexes**.
  Human relationships are **complex**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5288611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5288611) [\#5288925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5288925))

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Tom veut en finir avec ses **complexes**.
  Tom wants to stop fixating on things.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6686996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6686996) [\#6685625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6685625))

- Ton excellent travail me donne des **complexes**.
  Your excellent work puts me to shame.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#17379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17379) [\#11742404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11742404))

- Le tailleur de pierre a minutieusement sculpté des motifs **complexes** sur le monument.
  The stone carver meticulously carved intricate patterns on the monument.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Babelball · checked, community translation · [\#11927645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11927645) [\#11927653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11927653))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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