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erkänna — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • acknowledge verb To accept or admit that something is true.
  • admit verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  • avow verb To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
  • concede verb To admit, often reluctantly, that something is true.
  • confess verb To admit that you have done something wrong, or that something is true.
  • own adj Belonging to a particular person; used to stress possession.
  • recognize verb To identify someone or something as already known from a previous encounter.

Senses

erkänna is used for these senses in English:

  • acknowledge (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
  • admit (transitive, or, intransitive) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny (+ to).
  • avow (transitive) To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
  • concede To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
  • concede To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
  • confess (intransitive, transitive) To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
  • own (transitive) To take responsibility for.
  • recognize (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.

acknowledge — full definition

  1. verb To accept or admit that something is true.
  2. verb To recognize someone or something formally, or to respond confirming receipt of something.

admit — full definition

  1. verb To allow someone or something to enter.
  2. verb To acknowledge, often reluctantly, that something is true.

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