La panique rend la situation encore plus difficile.

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Breakdown of La panique rend la situation encore plus difficile.

• difficile: difficult
• rendre: to make (cause to become)
• la situation: the situation

Questions & Answers about La panique rend la situation encore plus difficile.

What exactly does rend mean here, and how is rendre used in this kind of sentence?

In this sentence, rend is the 3rd person singular of rendre (to make, to render).

Here rendre has the structure:

sujet + rendre + COD (direct object) + adjectif
La panique (subject) + rend + la situation (object) + difficile (adjective)

So it literally means: “Panic makes the situation difficult.”

Some more examples with rendre used the same way:

• Cette nouvelle rend tout le monde triste.
  → This news makes everyone sad.
• Le froid rend la route dangereuse.
  → The cold makes the road dangerous.

So you can think of rendre here as “to make [something] [adjective].”

Why is it la panique and la situation? How do I know they’re feminine?