"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
2. explain one's absence = wyjaśniać czyjś nieobecność explain one's absence
  • She ought at least to have left a call for him, explaining her absence.
  • I've told him and he will explain your absence in court.
  • This was the story she had decided to use to explain her absence.
  • The writers even went to the trouble of trying to explain her earlier absence.
  • What on earth were they going to tell people to explain his absence from home?
  • I think the above 'artist statement' goes some way as to explaining their absence.
  • At first he explains his long absence by saying that he'd been ill.
  • The engineer had disappeared, and no reason could be brought forward to explain his absence.
  • There, I-330 offers him the services of a corrupt doctor in order to explain his absence from work.
  • She had not even phoned them that morning to explain her absence.
(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
(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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