understand

Etymology
From, from , from , from , equivalent to 🇨🇬 + (Modern English ). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Middle 🇨🇬. Compare also 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)   To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
 * 2)   To know the meaning of.
 * 3)    To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
 * 4)  To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
 * 5)   To know the intent, motives or character of;  to know the causes of or reasons for.
 * 6)  To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
 * 7)  To regard as present when not.
 * 8)  To stand underneath, to support.
 * 9)  To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
 * 1)  To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
 * 2)   To know the intent, motives or character of;  to know the causes of or reasons for.
 * 3)  To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
 * 4)  To regard as present when not.
 * 5)  To stand underneath, to support.
 * 6)  To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
 * 1)  To regard as present when not.
 * 2)  To stand underneath, to support.
 * 3)  To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
 * 1)  To stand underneath, to support.
 * 2)  To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
 * 1)  To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);
 * 1)  To comprehend or grasp (some particular matter); to have comprehension (in general);

Usage notes

 * In its sense of "imputing meaning", use is usually limited to the past participle understood.
 * The obsolete perfect form understanded is occasionally found, e.g. in the  and the  of the Anglican Church.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аилкаара
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, ,
 * American Sign Language: SmallO@NearSfhead-PalmBack Release
 * Amharic: ተረዳ
 * Andi: бичӏчӏунну
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: فهم
 * Hijazi Arabic: فِهِم
 * Moroccan Arabic: فهم
 * South Levantine Arabic: فهم
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: duchescu, prindu, achicãsescu, ntsileg, apucupescu, ayrãxescu
 * Assamese: বুজা, বুজি পোৱা
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: бичӏчӏизе
 * Azerbaijani:, başa düşmək, qanmaq, başı çıxmaq
 * Bashkir: аңлау, төшөнөү
 * Basque: ulertu
 * Belarusian: разуме́ць, зразуме́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: ойлгохо, мэдэхэ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: sabot
 * Chechen: кхета
 * Cherokee: ᎪᎵᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 明白
 * Dungan: минбый, дун
 * Mandarin:, , 了解//暸解, , 看得懂 ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, fatte, begribe
 * Dolgan: туолкулаа
 * Dutch:,  ,
 * Dzongkha: ཧ་གོ
 * Esperanto: kompreni
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: skilja, forstanda
 * Finnish:, , , , , ,  ,  ,
 * Franco-Provençal: entendre, comprendre, cheveir
 * French:
 * Friulian: capî
 * Galician:
 * Gallurese: cumprindí
 * Georgian: გაგება
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: συνίημι, ἐπίσταμαι
 * Ancient Greek: ἐννοέω
 * Greenlandic: paasivaa
 * Gujarati: સમજવું
 * Hawaiian: maopopo
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: nakasabut
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: arvata, ymmärtää, saavva arvoa, arvoa
 * Ingush: кхета
 * Interlingua: comprender
 * Irish: tuig
 * Istro-Romanian: kapęi, âncelege, razumęi
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: ,
 * Kalmyk: ухх
 * Kazakh: ,
 * Khalaj: anglamaq
 * Khmer: ,
 * Konkani: कळचे, अर्थ जांव्चे
 * Korean:, , 리해하다
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: تێگەیشت, سەر لێ دەرچون
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladin: capir
 * Lakota: okáȟniǧA
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, comprehendō, percipio, , conspicio, , , exaudio, , interpretor, subaudio
 * Latvian: saprast
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:, verstahn
 * Macedonian: ра́збира
 * Malay: paham
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Maltese: fehem
 * Manchu: ᡠᠯᡥᡳᠮᠪᡳ
 * Manx: toig
 * Maori: mātau, aro, orotau, aweko
 * Mokilese: woahwoa
 * Mongolian:, ,
 * Navajo: adiistsʼaʼ, bidiistsʼaʼ, bidiistsʼį́į́h
 * North Frisian:
 * Föhr: ferstun, begrip
 * Hallig: ferstööne, begripe
 * Mooring: ferstönje, begripe
 * Northern Sami: ipmirdit
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Occitan: ,
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: разоумѣти
 * Old English: understandan, onġietan
 * Old Saxon: farstandan, bikunnan, undarhuggian
 * Oromo: hubachuu
 * Ossetian: ӕмбарын
 * Ottoman Turkish: آڭلامق
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, , , , być świadomym znaczenia
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: chapir, capir, tgapeir, encleger, entelgir, entellir, antalir, ancleir, incler, incleger
 * Russian:, ,
 * S'gaw Karen: နၢ်ပၢၢ်
 * Salar: olanğusı
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: cumprèndhere, cumprendi
 * Logudorese: appetzare, attibbìre, cumprèndere, suppentire
 * Sassarese: cumprindí
 * Scots: ken, unnerstaund
 * Scottish Gaelic: tuig
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: (Ekavian) разумети, (Ijekavian) разумјети
 * Roman: (Ekavian), (Ijekavian)
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:, cumprènniri,
 * Sinhalese: තේරෙනවා
 * Slovak: rozumieť
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:, kasid
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rozměś, zrozměś
 * Upper Sorbian: rozumić, zrozumić
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sranan Tongo: ferstan, frustan
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠛꠥꠎꠣ
 * Tagalog: maintindihan, alamin, batirin
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: புரிந்து
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tibetan: ཧ་གོ
 * Tocharian B: kärs-
 * Tok Pisin: save
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: düşünmek
 * Tuvan: угаар, билир
 * Udmurt: валаны
 * Ukrainian:, зрозумі́ти
 * Urdu: سمجھنا
 * Uyghur: چۈشەنمەك, بىلمەك, ئاڭقارماق
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: capir
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: ferstean, begripe
 * Western Bukidnon Manobo: savut
 * White Hmong:
 * Yiddish: פֿאַרשטיין
 * Zhuang: roxyiuj, doeng, mingzbeg
 * Zulu: qonda, bona
 * ǃXóõ: ta̰ã


 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:, , porozumět,
 * Danish:, mene
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: den Eindruck haben,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Icelandic: skiljast
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, opfatte, indse, underforstå
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin:
 * Navajo: bikʼiʼdiishtįįh
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old English: understandan, onġietan
 * Pashto:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Bambara:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Mongolian:
 * Old English:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: