"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
(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream
Kolokacji: 4
(20) time, history, life, past
Kolokacji: 4
1. time to explain = czas wyjaśnić time to explain
3. explain one's life = wyjaśniać czyjś życie explain one's life
  • I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
  • This is how they are employed to explain social life.
  • He appears to want to live on very much, so this could have been his way of explaining life to me.
  • Whatever this reporter might have to say to explain his life, she didn't want to hear it.
  • He doesn't want to explain his strange life to her, and worse, he's getting a feeling that she's part of couple number 100.
  • However, she was not about to explain data files and life on other worlds to them.
  • Basic philosophy to explain life will have to come before that art makes much further progress.
  • Would you rather explain your life of crime to the chief in there?
  • I always sit down with our new people and explain life as a Packer to them.
  • He was shown talking to several recruits, explaining life in the organization.
4. explain one's past = wyjaśniać czyjś przeszłość explain one's past
(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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