"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. explain one's motives = wyjaśniać czyjś motywy explain one's motives
2. explain one's motivation = wyjaśniać czyjś motywacja explain one's motivation
4. need to explain = potrzebuj wyjaśnić need to explain
  • There was never any need to explain things to him (even if she had wanted to).
  • There was no need to explain what he had done.
  • He had no need to explain my own craft to me.
  • Others respond to a government's need to explain a nation's past to itself.
  • There was no need to explain, to tell her what it meant to him.
  • Despite her words, Kelly felt a need to explain himself.
  • This was one time when he didn't feel the need to explain anything.
  • Given the question, there was no need to explain it.
  • She might not have known I'd become like her and had thought there would be no need to explain things.
  • After what I have seen today, there's need for her to explain why.
5. explain one's silence = wyjaśniać czyjś cisza explain one's silence
(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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