"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
  • That could explain the way they sounded and the lack of cold.
  • I pointed the man out, explaining his lack of interest in what was going on.
  • "Well, you're going to have to say you know him better than that, to explain his lack of clothes."
  • It may also help explain his total lack of humor.
  • How else to explain the lack of offers for head coaching jobs?
  • The beat does not entirely explain the lack of conversation.
  • "I guess that explains your lack of advancement in the department."
  • These two qualities make for poor growing conditions and explains the general lack of plant life.
  • I hadn't done very well explaining my lack of a fake arm.
  • Both seem plausible, and either would explain our lack of visitors.
(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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