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"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 • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 57
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) thing, effect
Kolokacji: 2
(2) matter, problem, interest, concern, business, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(3) decision, choice, vote
Kolokacji: 3
(4) action, behavior, role, part, process, ...
Kolokacji: 16
(5) position, theory, concept, way, fact, ...
Kolokacji: 11
(6) plan, purpose, idea, philosophy, intention, ...
Kolokacji: 9
(7) presence, absence, lack
Kolokacji: 3
(8) view, aspect, importance, nature, popularity, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(9) success, failure, change, loss, death, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(10) reasoning, reason, case, rationale, thinking, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(11) attempt, crime
Kolokacji: 2
(12) origin, name
Kolokacji: 2
(13) policy, strategy
Kolokacji: 2
(14) phenomenon, chance, event, reaction, response, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(15) difference, variation, discrepancy, departure, variance
Kolokacji: 5
(16) situation, right, Hitler, anomaly, fossil
Kolokacji: 5
(17) meaning, point, observation, significance, detail, ...
Kolokacji: 11
(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream
Kolokacji: 4
1. explain one's feelings = wyjaśniać czyjś uczucia explain one's feelings
2. explain one's desire = wyjaśniać czyjś ochota explain one's desire
  • That would certainly explain his desire to stick it to the school and their teachers.
  • This love is a way to explain his erotic desire and spiritual aspiration.
  • It says that he can't explain his desire for the boy, but walks over and talks to him.
  • It explains his desire to go off and direct his material.
  • He'd planned it that way all along, which also could explain his original desire to help me regain my memory.
  • How do I explain my desire to leave so soon?
  • Daniels also explained their desire to "just be a rock band.
  • This is clearly not the first time it has happened and helps explain Nathan's desire to escape from his family.
  • I have said that I cannot explain my desire for her, and it is true.
  • Couldn't this explain Ingres's desire to keep a photograph of the painting even after it was destroyed?
3. explain one's vision = wyjaśniać czyjś wizja explain one's vision
4. explain one's dream = wyjaśniać czyjś sen explain one's dream
(19) lot, relationship, condition, circumstance, finding, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(20) time, history, life, past
Kolokacji: 4
(21) motive, motivation, need, silence
Kolokacji: 5
(22) technique, rate
Kolokacji: 2
(23) predicament, plight
Kolokacji: 2
(24) attraction, fascination, gravity, altruism
Kolokacji: 4
(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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