complicated; complex; intricate; difficult; made up of many interconnected parts; hard to understand or deal with
Building blocks
keeru- → root, from the noun keer (a twist, coil, turn)
-line → adjective ending (turns it into an adjective: “characterised by, full of”)
So literally keeruline means: “full of twists and turns”—something all tangled up.
How to use it:
Here is how you use the word “keeruline” ⬇️
Example
Oleme praegu üsna keerulises olukorras, aga leiame kindlasti lahenduse
Literally: “(We) are now quite complicated-in situation-in, but (we) find definitely solution”
Idiomatically: “Right now we're in quite a complicated situation, but we'll definitely find a solution”
Oleme - Verb - 1st Person Plural, Present Tense: "(we) are"
praegu - Adverb - Indeclinable: "now, right now"
üsna - Adverb - Indeclinable: "quite, fairly"
keerulises - Adjective - Inessive Singular: "complicated"
olukorras - Noun - Inessive Singular: "in a situation"
aga - Conjunction - Indeclinable: "but"
leiame - Verb - 1st Person Plural, Present Tense: "(we) will find"
kindlasti - Adverb - Indeclinable: "definitely, certainly"
lahenduse - Noun - Genitive Singular (total object): "solution"