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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.