explain suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
(obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.

To explain a chapter of the Bible.
The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
The horse-chestnut is[...]ready to explain its leaf.

Partisiipin perfekti	explained	Partisiipin perfekti	explaint (vanhentunut)
Partisiipin perfekti	explain'd (vanhahtava)	Imperfekti	explained
Imperfekti	explaint (vanhentunut)	Imperfekti	explain'd (vanhahtava)
Partisiipin preesens	explaining	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	explains
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	explaineth (vanhahtava)

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