"explain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

explain verbo

explain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 136
explain things • explain matters • explain one's decision • explain one's actions • explain one's behavior • explain one's position • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) thing, effect
Kolokacji: 2
(3) decision, choice, vote
Kolokacji: 3
(7) presence, absence, lack
Kolokacji: 3
(11) attempt, crime
Kolokacji: 2
(12) origin, name
Kolokacji: 2
(13) policy, strategy
Kolokacji: 2
  • I explained my Government's policy to continue efforts to increase our market access.
  • Her job was explaining and selling the administration's foreign policy, especially its war on terrorism.
  • The only way I change that is by sitting them down and explaining our policy to the media.
  • "The failure has been in explaining our policy adequately to the public."
  • The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.
  • General, I don't need to explain my policies to you.
  • Officials naturally find life easier if they do not have to explain and defend their policies.
  • The court issued an injunction against any change before it rules, and gave the Government two weeks to explain its new policy.
  • I agree though that Labour haven't explained their alternative policy and need to.
  • "You can explain your policy while I get dressed."
2. explain one's strategy = wyjaśniać czyjś strategia explain one's strategy
(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream
Kolokacji: 4
(20) time, history, life, past
Kolokacji: 4
(22) technique, rate
Kolokacji: 2
(23) predicament, plight
Kolokacji: 2
(25) reluctance, willingness
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + explain
Kolokacji: 32
help explain • attempt to explain • try to explain • seek to explain • fail to explain • help to explain • begin to explain • need to explain • ...
explain + preposición
Kolokacji: 30
explain to • explain by • explain about • explain in • explain during • ...
explain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 105
fully explain • partly explain • explain patiently • explained away • easily explained • clearly explain • later explain • further explain • ...

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