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TO UNDERSTAND

Modern Translation: TO UNDERSTAND

Language Translations for "TO UNDERSTAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

فهم, ‏تفهم (get along with, give to understand, take up with smb.). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

amuyaña. (various references)

   

Breton

  

kompren. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

理解 (understanding), (to know), 懂得 (to comprehend, to know), (to know), 明白 (clear), (bright, clear, next). (various references)

   

Czech

  

je to srozumitelné (it is easy to understand). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verminderde verstaanbaarheid (deterioration of ability to understand words). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vaikeatajuinen (hard to understand), vaikeaselkoinen (abstruse, hard to understand), minun annettiin ymmärtää (I was given to understand), helppotajuinen (easy to understand, popular), helposti ymmärrettävä (easy to understand, readily understandable), annoin hänen ymmärtää (I gave him to understand). (various references)

   

French

  

comprendre. (various references)

   

German

  

verstehen (understand, understanding). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επιδείνωση της δυνατότητας κατανόησης της ομιλίας (deterioration of ability to understand words). (various references)

   

Haitian Creole

  

konprann (understand). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hozzágondol (understood), hozzáért (understood), értesül (hear, to learn, understood). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

tukisivaa. (various references)

   

Irish

  

thuiscint. (various references)

   

Italian

  

comprendere (realize, understand, comprehend, grasp), capire (understand, realize). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

知る (to be acquainted with, to feel, to know), 悟る (to attain enlightenment, to discern, to perceive). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

がてんがいく (to make out), ききとる (to catch, to follow), しる (broth, juice, sap, soup, to be acquainted with, to feel, to know), くみとる (to pump out, to scoop out), さとる (to attain enlightenment, to discern, to perceive), うかがいしる (to perceive), うけとる (to accept, to get, to interpret, to receive, to take), ふくむ (duty, public service, to be charged or loaded with, to be dripping with, to be full of, to be suffused with, to bear in mind, to cherish, to comprise, to contain, to embrace, to harbor, to have, to hold, to hold in the mouth, to include), のみこむ (to catch on to, to digest, to gulp down, to learn, to swallow deeply, to take in), つうじあう (to communicate with), つうじる (to be well informed, to communicate, to lead to, to run to), かみわける (to distinguish, to taste), わきまえる (to bear in mind, to discern, to discriminate, to know), わかる (to be understood, to know), みとる (to care for the sick, to perceive). (various references)

   

Maori

  

maatau-ria (ki). (various references)

   

Maya

  

na'at. (various references)

   

Pidgin English

  

understand, hear (heard). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay erstandunday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

entender (know, perceive, read, realize, savvy, sense, spell out, understand), compreender (realize). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

interpretar, entender. (various references)

   

Romansch

  

chapir. (various references)

   

Romany

  

ahàyava. (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

capiri. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

comprender (understand, realize). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

kú-va. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

antyda (imply, insinuate, suggest). (various references)

   

Tahitian

  

ta'a. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ima etmek (adumbrate, allude to, give smb. to understand, hint at, imply, import, insinuate, intimate, mention, refer, shadow forth, shadow out, sign, suggest), anlayamamak (elude, make nothing of, miss the point, not to understand), çıtlatmak (drop a hint, give a hint, give smb. to understand, hint, indicate, insinuate, intimate, spring). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дати зрозуміти (give to understand). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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