"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
  • She was the right age, or close enough to it, to explain the phenomenon to me.
  • I was thinking of ways to explain the phenomenon, and the idea just came to me in an instant.
  • They usually show us religion, beliefs or try to explain natural phenomena.
  • Obesity experts are not sure how to explain the phenomenon.
  • Science does not yet have all the answers to explain the phenomenon of black holes in space.
  • I could form no system to explain the phenomenon.
  • It is this property premium which explains the phenomenon of interest.
  • That proved to be critical, and now, many years later, the two have written the new study explaining the phenomenon.
  • He has made much of the way people waste enormous effort in trying to explain assumed phenomena.
  • He didn't believe in telepathy, but there was no other way to explain the phenomenon.
2. chance to explain = okazja by wyjaśnić chance to explain
4. explain one's reaction = wyjaśniać czyjś reakcja explain one's reaction
5. explain one's response = wyjaśniać czyjś odpowiedź explain one's response
(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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