Kilo Lingo

#164 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to understand

Examples

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I do not understand you.

demandon?

Do you understand the question?

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He understood everything at once.

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Of course I will help you.

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She understood nothing of his words.

The everyday word (of course) is built straight off this root: kompren- plus -- (able to be) plus the adverb -e, so it literally means understandably. Kompreno is understanding and nekomprenebla is incomprehensible with - stacked on top. Whatever is understood is a direct object and takes -n.

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This word is part of lesson 4.