"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
1. explain one's success = wyjaśniać czyjś sukces explain one's success
2. explain one's failure = wyjaśniać czyjś niepowodzenie explain one's failure
  • People in this situation are asked to explain their failure to vote.
  • There are other factors, too, to explain England's failure so far.
  • I hope this explains my failure to answer the questions of you and your friends.
  • For it would be very hard to explain his failure if those twenty-two men and women died.
  • Nor had he ever really explained his failure to search for her.
  • How else to explain her failure to flee the room when she had the chance?
  • Those demands also help explain his failure to appear in this country.
  • Nor did the museum explain its failure to the employees' satisfaction.
  • When they looked for reasons to explain their own failure, though, the Giants had few answers.
  • One young man, explaining his failure to take part, said, "I would never vote in this election."
4. loss to explain = strata wyjaśnić loss to explain
5. explain one's death = wyjaśniać czyjś śmierć explain one's death
6. explain one's disappearance = wyjaśniać czyjś zniknięcie explain one's disappearance
7. explain one's appearance = wyjaśniać czyjś wygląd explain one's appearance
(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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