"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. explain earnestly = wyjaśnij poważnie explain earnestly
2. explain gravely = wyjaśnij poważnie explain gravely
3. solemnly explain = poważnie wyjaśnij solemnly explain
  • Because the duchess, as the butler solemnly explained, had already left.
  • He asks if you tell him something that is not true to make him laugh,' Hrrestan explained solemnly.
  • "I've lived in such ships for thirty years," Hull explained solemnly.
  • Now Diebner looked earnest, like a farmer solemnly explaining how excel- lent his beets were.
  • "As a matter of fact," the transporter operator explained solemnly, "the captain did lose his best friend."
  • Heinrici explained solemnly that "had Smolensk been fired I could not have withdrawn my forces through it."
  • "We want to give our guests a water experience," he explained solemnly, by assisting in choosing the proper water to accompany their food.
  • "He's all mixed up," the little girl explained solemnly.
  • Once symptoms appear, he solemnly explained, "rabies is a 100 percent fatal disease."
  • We get the pretty blond talent executive solemnly explaining: "We don't want to sell out.
4. explain grimly = wyjaśnij ponuro explain grimly
(24) eagerly, enthusiastically
Kolokacji: 2
(25) bluntly, gruffly
Kolokacji: 2
(26) confidently, shyly
Kolokacji: 2

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