重じゅう複ふく文ぶん

also: ちょうふくぶん

Meanings

compound-complex sentence

A grammatical term for a sentence that contains at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. Used in Japanese grammar analysis.

重じゅう複ふく文ぶんは、複ふく数すうの主しゅ節せつと従じゅう属ぞく節せつから成なる文ぶんのことです。
A compound-complex sentence is a sentence that consists of multiple main clauses and subordinate clauses.

Kanji

重heavy, important, esteem
複duplicate, double, compound
文sentence, literature, style

Related words

単たん文ぶん
A simple sentence with only one independent clause.
複ふく文ぶん
A complex sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
重じゅう文ぶん
A compound sentence with two or more independent clauses.

Built from

重じゅう+複ふく文ぶん

Written forms

重複文
- じゅうふくぶん
  Standard kanji spelling. The reading じゅうふくぶん is the most common modern pronunciation.
- ちょうふくぶん
  Alternate reading. ちょうふく is a traditional reading of 重複 that is still used by some speakers, but じゅうふく is now more common.
ちょうふくぶん

Etymology

From 重複 (じゅうふく/ちょうふく, 'duplication; overlapping') + 文 (ぶん, 'sentence'). The term describes a sentence structure that combines features of both compound and complex sentences.