"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 • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 57

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 25

(1) thing, effect

Kolokacji: 2

(2) matter, problem, interest, concern, business, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(3) decision, choice, vote

Kolokacji: 3

(4) action, behavior, role, part, process, ...

Kolokacji: 16

(5) position, theory, concept, way, fact, ...

Kolokacji: 11

(6) plan, purpose, idea, philosophy, intention, ...

Kolokacji: 9

(7) presence, absence, lack

Kolokacji: 3

(8) view, aspect, importance, nature, popularity, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(9) success, failure, change, loss, death, ...

Kolokacji: 7

1. explain one's success = wyjaśniać czyjś sukces explain one's success

2. explain one's failure = wyjaśniać czyjś niepowodzenie explain one's failure

3. explain the change = wyjaśnij zmianę explain the change

explain changes, explain one's change

4. loss to explain = strata wyjaśnić loss to explain

"I am at a loss to explain what happened," he said.
Officials were at a loss to explain the 23 percent increase yesterday.
Looking back over three decades he's at a loss to explain the move.
For the third time in recent days, I was at a loss to explain.
The Pentagon was at a loss to explain what went wrong.
But they're at a loss to explain how the children are involved.
Something Jeffrey was at a loss to explain, much less understand.
Western diplomats seem at a loss to explain China's hard line.
He had gotten to her in some way she was at a loss to explain.
Art seemed to be at a loss to explain it.

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

(10) reasoning, reason, case, rationale, thinking, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(11) attempt, crime

Kolokacji: 2

(12) origin, name

Kolokacji: 2

(13) policy, strategy

Kolokacji: 2

(14) phenomenon, chance, event, reaction, response, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(15) difference, variation, discrepancy, departure, variance

Kolokacji: 5

(16) situation, right, Hitler, anomaly, fossil

Kolokacji: 5

(17) meaning, point, observation, significance, detail, ...

Kolokacji: 11

(18) feeling, desire, vision, dream

Kolokacji: 4

(19) lot, relationship, condition, circumstance, finding, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(20) time, history, life, past

Kolokacji: 4

(21) motive, motivation, need, silence

Kolokacji: 5

(22) technique, rate

Kolokacji: 2

(23) predicament, plight

Kolokacji: 2

(24) attraction, fascination, gravity, altruism

Kolokacji: 4

(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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