understandable

/-ǝbl /

US pronunciation

American sound/-ǝbl /

understandable

Syllables: 5 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Final e often stays silent

un - der - stan - dab - le -> understandable

Myanmar meaning

(adj) နားလည်နိုင်သော။ သဘောပေါက်နိုင်သော။ ရှင်းလင်းသော။ နားလည်လွယ်သော။

Full entry

understand / ʌndǝ'stænd / v (pt, pp understood /-'stƱd/ )

၁။ (က) နားလည်သည်။ သဘောပေါက်သည်။ understand the instructions/ rules/ conditions ❍ I'm not sure that I fully understand (you). ❍ I can understand French perfectly. ❍ I don't understand ( a word of) what he's saying.
(ခ) နားလည်သည်။ သဘောပေါက်သည်။ တီးမိခေါက်မိသည်။ Do you understand the difficulty of my position? ❍ I don't understand why he came/ what the problem is. ❍ I just can't understand him/ his taking the money.
၂။ စာနာမှုရှိသည်။ နားလည်မှုရှိသည်။ understand children/ machinery/ modern music ❍ We understand each other, even if we don't always agree. ❍ I quite understand that you need a change/ understand your needing a change. ❍ He understands how hard things have been for you.
၃။ (usu fml ) (က) သိရှိသည်။ နားလည် သည်။ I understand (that) she is in Paris. ❍ Am I to understand that you refuse? ❍ The situation, as I understand it, is very serious. ❍ I understood him to say that he would co-operate. ❍ Senior ministers are understood to have opposed the plan. (ခ) (usu passive) သိထားသည်။ နားလည်သည်။ Your expenses will be paid, that's understood.
၄။ (esp passive) (စကားလုံး၊ ပုဒ်ကို) မြှုပ်ထားသည်။ In the sentence 'I can't drive', the object 'a car' is understood.
❏ make oneself understood [IDM ] တစ်ဖက်သား နားလည်စေသည်။ He doesn't speak much English but he can make himself understood.
❏ understandable /-ǝbl / adj
(က) နားလည်နိုင်သော။ သဘောပေါက်နိုင်သော။ (ခ) ရှင်းလင်းသော။ နားလည်လွယ်သော။ The instructions were not readily/ easily understandable. ❍ understandable delays/ objections/ motives.
❏ understandably / -ǝbli / adv
ထိုက်သင့်သည့် အားလျော်စွာ။ She was understandably annoyed. ❍ Understandably, he's reluctant to talk about it. သူစိတ်ဆိုးမယ်ဆိုလျှင်လည်း ဆိုးလောက်ပါတယ်။

More examples

If you don’t understand, just put your hand up.
The instructions were difficult to understand.
I don’t understand a word you’re saying.
Luke nodded as if he understood perfectly.
[understand what/where/whether etc] : I don’t quite understand where you want me to put it.
I’m sorry, I don’t understand French.
Do they fully understand the implications of their decision?
[understand how/why/what etc] : We are only beginning to understand how the brain functions.
[understand (that)] : Please try to understand that we want the best for you.
He says his wife doesn’t understand him.
I understand your concern, but the operation is completely safe.
I can understand your reluctance to talk about what happened.
[understand how/why/what] : Does she understand why he doesn’t want to see her?
[understand someone/someone’s doing something] : I can understand him not inviting Joan (=understand why he does not invite her).
[understand (that)] : We understand that a major announcement is to be made tomorrow.
[be understood to do something] : Mr Lang is understood to favour more traditional teaching methods.
[it is understood that] : It is understood that £2.5 million has been set aside to develop the scheme.
The object of the verb is understood with words such as ‘to smoke’ and ‘to read’.

Synonyms

appreciate, know, recognize, comprehend, realize, be aware of, value, identify with, empathize, IQ, absorb, accept, acuity, apprehend, assume, be au fait with, be aware, be conscious of, be familiar with, be informed, be with it, be with you, believe, catch, catch on, cognize, concede, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, cotton on, count on, curiosity, deduce, discern, distinguish, expect, explain, fancy, fathom, feel for, figure out, find out, follow, gather, get, get it, get the hang of, get the idea, get the picture, get the point, grasp, guess, have knowledge of, hear, identify, imagine, infer, inquiring mind, inquiringness, intelligence, interestingness, interpret, intrusiveness, ken, learn, make out, make sense of, master, meddlesomeness, mental acquisitiveness, note, officiousness, penetrate, perceive, possess, precocity, presume, read, reckon, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, sympathize, take for granted, take in, take it, take meaning, the right stuff, think, thirst for knowledge, tolerate, twig, what it takes, work out

Antonyms

be ignorant, disallow, disapprove, disbelieve, discard, disregard, fail, free, ignore, know, leave, let go, lose, misinterpret, miss, mistake, misunderstand, neglect, not get, overlook, reject, release