ymmärtää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- appreciate verb To be grateful for something.
- apprehend verb To arrest someone, especially a suspected criminal.
- catch verb To capture or seize something moving, such as a ball or a fleeing person.
- comprehend verb To understand something fully.
- conceive verb To become pregnant.
- gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
- get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
- know verb To have information about something, or to be certain that something is true.
- realize verb To become fully aware of a fact or situation, especially one that was true all along.
- relate verb To tell or describe an event or story.
- see verb To perceive something with the eyes.
- twist verb To turn or bend something, often forcefully, so it becomes distorted or wound.
- understand verb To grasp the meaning of something.
Senses
ymmärtää is used for these senses in English:
- appreciate (transitive) To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
- apprehend To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
- catch (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. [from 16thc.]
- comprehend (transitive) To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb. [from 14th c.]
- conceive (transitive) To understand (someone).
- gather To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- get (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- know (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
appreciate — full definition
- verb To be grateful for something.
- verb To understand and value the true quality, meaning, or importance of something.
- verb (of an asset) To increase in value over time.
apprehend — full definition
- verb To arrest someone, especially a suspected criminal.
- verb To understand or grasp something mentally.
- verb To anticipate something, usually with worry or fear.