"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
  • I did not wait for him to speak, but at once began to explain my presence.
  • They should be here within a few hours, and I would rather not have to explain my presence.
  • What else could explain her presence now, in his car?
  • Not the whole truth, but enough to explain his presence.
  • They try to run away and explain their presence at the same time.
  • "But you might have explained your presence in the first place."
  • Even if someone showed up, he could explain his presence.
  • He'd never had to explain his presence so many times on one mission.
  • Later, he tried again to explain the presence of the photographs.
  • "Until now, we knew of no theory that could explain their presence."
2. explain one's absence = wyjaśniać czyjś nieobecność explain one's 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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