comprehension

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• UK: /ˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
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• US: /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
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• Australian: /ˌkɔmpɹɪˈhenʃn̩/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA2 M P R IY0 HH EH1 N SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehēnsiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kuptim — thorough understanding
• Arabic: فَهْم (fahm) — thorough understanding
• Armenian: հասկացողություն (haskacʻoġutʻyun) — thorough understanding
• Azerbaijani: fəhm — thorough understanding
• Azerbaijani: anlayış — thorough understanding
• Belarusian: разуме́нне (razumjénnje) — thorough understanding
• Belarusian: разуме́ньне (razumjénʹnje) — thorough understanding
• Bulgarian: разби́ране (razbírane) — thorough understanding
• Bulgarian: схва́щане (shváštane) — thorough understanding
• Bulgarian: споразуме́ние (sporazuménie) — thorough understanding
• Catalan: comprensió — thorough understanding
• Chinese Mandarin: 理解 (lǐjiě) — thorough understanding
• Chinese Mandarin: 瞭解 /了解 (liǎojiě) — thorough understanding
• Chinese Mandarin: 了解 (liǎojiě) — thorough understanding
• Czech: porozumění — thorough understanding
• Czech: pochopení — thorough understanding
• Czech: chápání — thorough understanding
• Danish: forståelse — thorough understanding
• Dutch: begrip — thorough understanding
• Dutch: verstandigheid — thorough understanding
• Esperanto: kompreno — thorough understanding
• Estonian: mõistmine — thorough understanding
• Finnish: ymmärrys — thorough understanding
• Finnish: käsityskyky — thorough understanding
• French: compréhension — thorough understanding
• French: entendement — thorough understanding
• Galician: comprensión — thorough understanding
• Georgian: გაგება (gageba) — thorough understanding
• German: Verständnis — thorough understanding
• German: Verstehen — thorough understanding
• Greek: κατανόηση (katanóisi) — thorough understanding
• Ancient Greek: κατάληψις (katálēpsis) — thorough understanding
• Hanunoo: alam — thorough understanding
• Hebrew: הֲבָנָה (havaná) — thorough understanding
• Hindi: समझ (samajh) — thorough understanding
• Hindi: फ़हम (faham) — thorough understanding
• Hindi: फहम (phaham) — thorough understanding
• Icelandic: skilningur — thorough understanding
• Ido: kompreno — thorough understanding
• Italian: comprensione — thorough understanding
• Japanese: 理解 (rikai) — thorough understanding
• Japanese: 了解 (ryōkai) — thorough understanding
• Kazakh: түсіну (tüsınu) — thorough understanding
• Korean: 이해 (ihae) — thorough understanding
• Korean: 리해 (rihae) — thorough understanding
• Korean: 요해 (yohae) — thorough understanding
• Korean: 료해 (ryohae) — thorough understanding
• Kyrgyz: түшүнүү (tüşünüü) — thorough understanding
• Latvian: izpratne — thorough understanding
• Lithuanian: supratimas — thorough understanding
• Macedonian: разбирање (razbiranje) — thorough understanding
• Macedonian: сфаќање (sfaḱanje) — thorough understanding
• Māori: aroā — thorough understanding
• Māori: aroātanga — thorough understanding
• Nepali: बोध (bodh) — thorough understanding
• Norwegian Bokmål: forståelse — thorough understanding
• Norwegian Bokmål: begripelse — thorough understanding
• Iranian Persian: فَهْم (fahm) — thorough understanding
• Iranian Persian: دَرْک (dark) — thorough understanding
• Polish: zrozumienie — thorough understanding
• Polish: pojmowanie — thorough understanding
• Portuguese: compreensão — thorough understanding
• Romanian: comprehensiune — thorough understanding
• Russian: понима́ние (ponimánije) — thorough understanding
• Russian: поня́тие (ponjátije) — thorough understanding
• Russian: осмысле́ние (osmyslénije) — thorough understanding
• Russian: разуме́ние (razuménije) — thorough understanding
• Serbo-Croatian: разумевање — thorough understanding
• Serbo-Croatian: razumevanje — thorough understanding
• Slovak: pochopenie — thorough understanding
• Slovak: porozumenie — thorough understanding
• Slovene: razumevanje — thorough understanding
• Spanish: comprensión — thorough understanding
• Spanish: entendimiento — thorough understanding
• Spanish: comprehensión — thorough understanding
• Swedish: förståelse — thorough understanding
• Tagalog: katalusan — thorough understanding
• Tagalog: talos — thorough understanding
• Tajik: фаҳм (fahm) — thorough understanding
• Tajik: дарк (dark) — thorough understanding
• Thai: ความเข้าใจ (kwaam-kâo-jai) — thorough understanding
• Turkish: anlayış — thorough understanding
• Turkish: fehim — thorough understanding
• Ukrainian: розумі́ння (rozumínnja) — thorough understanding
• Ukrainian: зрозумі́ння (zrozumínnja) — thorough understanding
• Urdu: سَمَجھ (samajh) — thorough understanding
• Urdu: فَہْم (fahm) — thorough understanding
• Uyghur: چۈشىنىش (chüshinish) — thorough understanding
• Uzbek: tushunish — thorough understanding
• Uzbek: fahm — thorough understanding
• Vietnamese: sự hiểu — thorough understanding
• Yiddish: פֿאַרשטאַנד (farshtand) — thorough understanding
• Yiddish: פֿאַרשטיין (farshteyn) — thorough understanding