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How to pronounce “understand”
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Pronunciation guide for understand
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of understand with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- California's First Lady
understand political people
- Definition summary
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce understand
California's First Lady
understand political people
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “understand”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- [Interjection]
- (Singapore, Malaysia, backchanneling) Uh-huh, I see; a way to acknowledge something said by the other speaker.
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Similar Sounds
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