Translation for 'to understand sth' from English to French

to understand (sth.)

entendre (qc.) [fam.] [comprendre]

to understand sb./sth.

comprendre qn./qc.

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to understand sth.

comprendre qc.

concevoir qc. [attitude, réaction]

se retrouver dans qc. [fig.] [explication]

s'y retrouver dans qc. [fig.] [explication]

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to make sb. understand sth.

faire comprendre qc. à qn.

to understand sth

s'expliquer qc. [comprendre]

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to seek to understand sth.

chercher à comprendre qc.

to try to understand sth.

chercher à comprendre qc.

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to make sb. understand the seriousness of sth.

faire mesurer à qn. la gravité de qc.

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to understand

comprendre

Now I understand!

Je comprends maintenant !

to understand one another

se comprendre

easy to understand

facilement compréhensible {adj}

Do you understand?

(Tu as) compris ?

to understand each other

se comprendre

to come to understand

finir par comprendre

to clearly and distinctly understand

recevoir cinq sur cinq [loc.] [aussi : 5 sur 5]

to pretend not to understand

faire mine de ne pas comprendre

difficult to understand [postpos.]

abscons {adj}

Do you really understand?

Est-ce que tu réalises vraiment ?

I don't understand.

Je ne comprends pas.

hard to understand [postpos.]

abscons {adj}

to find it difficult to understand

avoir des problèmes de compréhension

to balance sth. with sth. [e.g. work and family]

concilier qc. avec qc. [p. ex. famille et travail]occup.

to nest sth. in sth. [to place one part inside another]

emboîter qc. dans qc.

to be dying for sb./sth. to do sth. [idiom]

souhaiter désespérément que qn./qc. fasse qc.

to use sth. as an excuse for doing sth.

prétexter de qc. pour faire qc.

to have sth. on sb./sth. [e.g. hopes]

placer qc. dans qn./qc. [espoirs]

to cover sth. with sth. [by stretching it over]

tendre qc. de qc.

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