Translation of "understand" - English-Japanese dictionary

understand

verb uk ​ /ˌʌn·dəˈstænd/ us ​ /ˌʌn·dərˈstænd/ past tense and past participle understood

A1 to know the meaning of something that someone says

（人の言うことなど）が分かる
She didn’t understand so I explained it again.

A2 to know why or how something happens or works

～を知っている
We still don’t fully understand how the brain works.

B1 to know how someone feels or why they behave in a particular way

（人の気持ち、行動）を理解する
I don’t understand James sometimes.

(Translation of “understand” from the Cambridge English–Japanese Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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