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| 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), 了 (to know), 懂得 (to comprehend, to know), 懂 (to know), 明白 (clear), 明 (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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