Monimutkaisen

Monimutkainen is a Finnish adjective meaning complex or complicated. It describes things that have many parts, steps, or interdependencies, and that are not easily understood or solved. The form monimutkaisen occurs in inflected uses, for example as genitive singular: monimutkaisen ongelman (of a complicated problem). The base form is monimutkainen (nominative singular). Other common forms include monimutkaiset (nominative plural) and monimutkaisia (partitive plural). The noun form derived from the adjective is monimutkaisuus, meaning complexity.

In use, monimutkainen is a standard descriptive term in technical, academic, and everyday language. Examples include monimutkainen järjestelmä (a complex system) and monimutkainen prosessi (a complicated process). Finnish adjectives decline to agree with the noun in number and case, and there are no articles in Finnish.

The comparative and superlative forms are monimutkaisempi and monimutkaisin, respectively. Other morpho­logically relevant forms include the essive monimutkaisena (as something complex) and the translative monimutkaiseksi (changing into a state of being complex).

Notes and related terms: the noun form monimutkaisuus denotes the concept of complexity. Monimutkainen is widely used in both written and spoken Finnish. In English, it is typically translated as complex or complicated, depending on context. Related synonyms in Finnish include mutkikas (intricate, winding) and vaikea (difficult), though these are not exact substitutes in all situations.