"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 • ...
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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(1) fully, hardly, poorly
Kolokacji: 3
(3) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(4) easily, well, successfully
Kolokacji: 3
(5) clearly, lucidly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) later, afterward
Kolokacji: 2
(9) better, best
Kolokacji: 2
  • He always said the agency had never adequately explained its decision.
  • "I trust the situation has been adequately explained to you."
  • The reason for her suicide had never been adequately explained.
  • It has not yet been adequately explained how that serves the national interest.
  • Thus, cognitive factors alone will not adequately explain environmental action.
  • But the whole business bothered him, for reasons he couldn't adequately explain.
  • In his absence, I afterwards asked them the same questions, and they were able to explain quite adequately.
  • "I cannot adequately explain the pain my errors have caused me."
  • "The court merely says that in one small section the commission has not adequately explained its decision," he said.
  • I cannot adequately explain my fascination with ice and snow.
3. inadequately explained = niewystarczająco wyjaśnić inadequately explained
(13) quietly, gently, softly
Kolokacji: 3
(14) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(15) entirely, alone, solely
Kolokacji: 3
(16) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
(17) kindly, tactfully
Kolokacji: 2
(18) hastily, hurriedly
Kolokacji: 2
(19) publicly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) politely, graciously
Kolokacji: 2
(24) eagerly, enthusiastically
Kolokacji: 2
(25) bluntly, gruffly
Kolokacji: 2
(26) confidently, shyly
Kolokacji: 2

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