Translation
to understand
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Examples
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I do not understand you.
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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. is understanding and is incomprehensible with - stacked on top. Whatever is understood is a direct object and takes -n.
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on kompreni with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- ekkompreniverb
to realise, to grasp
ek-kompreni: to start understanding
- komprenadonoun
understanding
kompreni-ad-: the act of understanding
- kompreneblaadjective
understandable, comprehensible
kompreni-ebl-: able to be understood
- komprenebleadverb
of course, naturally; understandably
kompreni-ebl-
- komprenemaadjective
understanding, sympathetic
kompreni-em-: inclined to understand
- malkomprenonoun
misunderstanding
mal-kompreni: the opposite of understanding
- memkompreneblaadjective
self-evident; going without saying
memkompreni-ebl-
- miskompreniverb
to misunderstand
mis-kompreni: to understand wrongly
- nekompreneblaadjective
incomprehensible
nekompreni-ebl-: not able to be understood
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 6: kompreni, 艥i, tio and 11 more words.