English > understand: 5 senses > verb 1, cognition| Meaning | know and comprehend the nature or meaning / meaning of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Model | Sam and Sue understand the movie; They won't understand the story |
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| Examples | - "She did not understand her husband"
- "I understand what she means"
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| Caused by | click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place | Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions |
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| resonate, come across | Be received or understood |
| Entailed by | master, control | Have a firm understanding or knowledge of |
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| Narrower | catch, get | grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of |
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| follow | grasp the meaning / meaning |
| grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend | Get the meaning / meaning of something |
| interpret, construe, see | make sense of |
| make out | comprehend |
| penetrate, fathom, bottom | Come to understand |
| read | To hear and understand |
| sense | comprehend / comprehend |
| solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work | Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning / meaning of |
| touch | comprehend / comprehend |
| understand, read, interpret, translate | make sense of a language |
| Spanish | coger, comprender, entender |
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| Catalan | captar, comprendre, entendre |
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| Adjectives | understandable | capable of being apprehended or understood |
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| Nouns | understanding | the cognitive condition / condition of someone who understands |
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