Was heißt »ver­zwickt« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv ver­zwickt lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • tricky
  • involved
  • complicated
  • knotty
  • convoluted

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Das ist eine ziemlich verzwickte Angelegenheit.

It's quite a tricky business.

Ganz im Gegenteil, es wird alles immer mysteriöser und verzwickter.

On the contrary, it's all getting more mysterious and complicated.

On the contrary, it's all becoming more mysterious and complicated.

Synonyme

dif­fi­zil:
delicate
difficult
kom­pli­ziert:
difficult
sophisticated
schwie­rig:
difficult
un­über­sicht­lich:
confusing
unclear
ver­trackt:
complex
difficult
intricate

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I tried it, but it's super complicated.

  • It's a little too complicated for me.

  • The divorce was complicated.

  • The situation is quite complicated.

  • "What do you do after work?" "It's different every day. Most of the time, though, I'm too tired to do anything too involved."

  • The world is complicated.

  • Life is very complicated.

  • Life is complicated.

  • The problem is far more complicated.

  • There's this man who's in love with me. At first I let myself get involved with him, but now I want some space. How can I let him down gently?

  • Things have got very complicated.

  • Your Tom is a right one. How you got involved with him is still a mystery to me.

  • Football matches are complicated by the presence of the opposing team.

  • Football matches are complicated by the presence of the opposition.

  • That was far more complicated than I thought.

  • Tom should never have got involved with Mary.

  • It makes matters more complicated.

  • It makes matters complicated.

  • That’s more complicated than I thought at first.

  • Do you wish someday to be involved in politics?

Ver­zwickt übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: verzwickt. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: verzwickt. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1251246, 1400677, 12209512, 12204107, 12180793, 11870563, 11780958, 11779358, 11730561, 11730556, 11726801, 11690936, 11674998, 11578379, 11455389, 11455388, 11444382, 11173972, 11049378, 11049370, 10992058 & 10837081. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR