"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
(13) quietly, gently, softly
Kolokacji: 3
(14) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(15) entirely, alone, solely
Kolokacji: 3
  • But this cannot entirely explain their low scores - other schools with poor children do better.
  • The beat does not entirely explain the lack of conversation.
  • It could not be explained entirely by the boy's grief.
  • Certainly this cannot be entirely explained by differences in sampling.
  • A man's size advantage over a woman does not entirely explain his dominance.
  • The reasons behind it, however, and the related issue of where responsibility lies, have still not been entirely explained.
  • I can't explain entirely what was in her mind.
  • "And that is explained entirely by recessionary conditions in 40 percent of the world economy."
  • He'd been under a lot of stress lately, but that would not entirely explain the fatigue.
  • But nostalgia cannot entirely explain an appeal that has persisted for nearly 50 years.
2. explained alone = wyjaśniony w pojedynkę explained alone
3. explained solely = wyjaśniony wyłącznie explained solely
(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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