misverstaan — meaning in English
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English meaning
- misconstrue verb To take the wrong meaning from what someone says or does.
- mishear verb To hear something wrong.
- mistake noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.
- misunderstand verb To understand something incorrectly.
Senses
misverstaan is used for these senses in English:
- misconstrue (transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
- mishear (ambitransitive) To hear wrongly.
- mistake (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- misunderstand (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
mishear — full definition
- verb To hear something wrong.
- verb To get the wrong idea about what someone means.
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