"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
(16) proudly, modestly
Kolokacji: 2
(17) kindly, tactfully
Kolokacji: 2
1. kindly explain = życzliwie wyjaśnij kindly explain
  • If this is the case, could he kindly explain his enthusiastic support for the death penalty?
  • "Not exactly," he explained kindly, stretching down a hand to help her rise.
  • That way, he explained kindly, she would be able to reach her home sometime during the afternoon.
  • Angelina, kindly explain their use to our guide before we advance.
  • "As 'this sort of thing' is rather a vague expression, would you kindly explain?"
  • Kindly explain why you did not like the article, would you?
  • "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found this in it?"
  • But I know this is false, could you kindly explain it to me?
  • "Well, it's a change for them to get out, poor things," he explained kindly.
  • "In the meanwhile will you kindly explain, what this means?"
2. tactfully explain = taktownie wyjaśnij tactfully explain
(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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