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"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 • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 15
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 4
(1) help, attempt, try, seek, fail, begin, use, ...
Kolokacji: 17
1. help explain = pomóż wyjaśniać help explain
2. attempt to explain = próba wyjaśnienia attempt to explain
3. try to explain = spróbuj wyjaśnić try to explain
tried to explain
4. seek to explain = staraj się wyjaśnić seek to explain
5. fail to explain = nie potraf wyjaśnić fail to explain
6. help to explain = pomóż wyjaśnić help to explain
7. begin to explain = zacznij wyjaśniać begin to explain
  • I did not wait for him to speak, but at once began to explain my presence.
  • Spreading the plans on the floor, he began to explain them to her.
  • I can't begin to explain what that will mean to me.
  • They looked at him and he began to explain about his models.
  • I sat down on a boulder and began to explain to him what this was all about.
  • Knew it in a way he could not begin to explain.
  • Possibly not; but this doesn't begin to explain why they killed.
  • Looking back into the cave toward her, I began to explain.
  • Don't ask me what was going through my head, I couldn't begin to explain.
  • That wasn't even half of it, but she couldn't begin to explain.
8. used to explain = użyty by wyjaśnić used to explain
use to explain
9. go to explain = idź do wyjaśniać go to explain
10. try explaining = spróbuj wyjaśniać try explaining
try explain
11. start explaining = zacznij wyjaśniać start explaining
12. begin explaining = zacznij wyjaśniać begin explaining
13. finished explaining = skończone wyjaśnianie finished explaining
finish explaining
14. start to explain = zacznij wyjaśniać start to explain
15. struggle to explain = walka o wyjaśnienie struggle to explain
16. refuse to explain = odmów wyjaśnienia refuse to explain
17. keep explaining = kontynuuj wyjaśnianie keep explaining
(2) need, ask, want, like
Kolokacji: 6
(3) say, mind, propose, write, show, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(4) bother, seem
Kolokacji: 3
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 • ...

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