Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (rikkinäinen englanti) unnerstand
- (vanhentunut) understaund
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
Huudahdus
- (Singapore, Malaysia, backchanneling) Uh-huh, I see; a way to acknowledge something said by the other speaker.
Esimerkit
- I understand German.
- I received your note, but I did not understand it.
- I understand not what you mean by this.
- Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
- I understand that you have information for me.
- ‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.’
- But we cannot disappoint Grandma and Grandpa Smith, and that is what family is all about! Do you understand?!
- In the imperative mood, the word “you” is usually understood.
- The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | understood | Partisiipin perfekti | understanded (vanhentunut) |
| Imperfekti | understood | Imperfekti | understanded (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | understanding | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | understands |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | understandeth (vanhahtava) |