förstånd — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brain noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
- mind noun The part of a person responsible for thought, awareness, memory, and reasoning.
- reason noun A cause or explanation for something; the motive behind an action.
- sanity noun The state of having a healthy, rational mind.
- sense noun One of the physical faculties — sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch — through which the body perceives the world.
Senses
förstånd is used for these senses in English:
- brain (in the plural) Intellect.
- mind The capability for rational thought.
- mind A healthy mental state.
- reason (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- sanity The condition of being sane.
- sense Sound practical or moral judgment.
brain — full definition
- noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
- noun A person's intelligence or mental ability.
- noun An especially intelligent person, or the person supplying the ideas behind a plan.
- verb Informal: to hit someone hard on the head.
mind — full definition
- noun The part of a person responsible for thought, awareness, memory, and reasoning.
- noun An opinion, intention, or attitude.
- verb To be bothered by or object to something.
- verb To look after or take care of someone or something briefly.
- verb To be careful about something, or to pay attention to it.