Practice FrenchC1adjective
sous-jacent
underlying (cause, tension)
Agrees with the noun it describes, in gender and number.
« Les tensions sous-jacentes ont fini par éclater au grand jour. »
“The underlying tensions finally erupted into the open.”
In other languages
- Spanish subyacente (causa, tensión)
- Portuguese subjacente (causa, tensão)
- Arabic كامن (سبب، توتر)
- German zugrunde liegend (Ursache, Spannung)
- Italian di fondo, sottostante (causa, tensione)
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