"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
(18) hastily, hurriedly
Kolokacji: 2
(19) publicly, explicitly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) politely, graciously
Kolokacji: 2
1. politely explain = uprzejmie wyjaśnij politely explain
2. graciously explain = uprzejmie wyjaśniać graciously explain
  • She graciously explains, "It is one of the subtle ways we limit who applies."
  • So it was no surprise when she stopped just a minute or so into the song to graciously explain that she heard a "whistling sound."
  • Colin Sullivan, a museum guide, graciously explained the history of the mansion and its residents when we stopped by before museum hours and found the front door open.
  • But Johnson graciously explained that Sanders was injured.
  • He graciously explained that he wanted to keep down the hype during his first season as a starter.
  • "This is my great-niece, on my grandmother's side, Noelani Hale," Lucinda explained graciously, whisking her pale-blue lace handkerchief toward the girl.
  • Our experimental animals aged and died normally," he explained graciously, "but I was beginning to wonder if we had rejuvenated you two, or perhaps endowed you with eternal life.
  • "The gates of Tune Town are locked with piano keys," he explained graciously, "so when you struck the opening chords, of course you fell in."
  • Carol Baldwin, the office manager of Ribbon Things, graciously explained why.
  • Yet he still graciously explains how it came to be that an Oregonian who works in Washington wrote a best-selling guidebook to New York City.
(24) eagerly, enthusiastically
Kolokacji: 2
(25) bluntly, gruffly
Kolokacji: 2
(26) confidently, shyly
Kolokacji: 2

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