incomprehensible

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• UK: /ɪnˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/
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• US: /ɪnˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/
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• US: /ɪŋˌkɑmpɹəˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 NG K AA2 M P R AH0 HH EH1 N S IH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh2- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh2i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Proto-Indo-European *ghed- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *ghnédti Proto-Italic *hendō Proto-Italic *praiɣendō Latin prehendō Latin comprehendō Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin comprehēnsibilis Latin incomprehēnsibilisbor. Middle French incomprehensibleder. English incomprehensible From Middle French incomprehensible, from Latin incomprehēnsibilis. Equivalent to in- + comprehensible.

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: pakuptueshëm — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Armenian: անհասկանալի (anhaskanali) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Azerbaijani: anlaşılmaz — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Belarusian: незразуме́лы (njezrazumjély) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Bulgarian: неразбираем (nerazbiraem) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Bulgarian: непонятен (neponjaten) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Catalan: incomprensible — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Chinese Mandarin: 難以理解的 /难以理解的 (nányǐ lǐjiě de) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Chinese Mandarin: 費解的 /费解的 (fèijiě de) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Czech: nesrozumitelný — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Danish: uforståelig — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Danish: ubegribelig — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Dutch: onbegrijpelijk — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Finnish: käsittämätön — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Finnish: ei ymmärrettävä — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Finnish: siansaksa — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Finnish: heprea — impossible or very difficult to understand
• French: incompréhensible — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Galician: incomprensible — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Georgian: გაუგებარი (gaugebari) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Georgian: გონებისთვის მიუწვდომელი (gonebistvis miuc̣vdomeli) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• German: unverständlich — impossible or very difficult to understand
• German: unbegreiflich — impossible or very difficult to understand
• German: unfassbar — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Greek: ακατανόητος (akatanóitos) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Greek: ακαταλαβίστικος (akatalavístikos) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Ancient Greek: ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Hindi: कल्पनातीत (kalpanātīt) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Hindi: अकल्पनीय (akalpanīya) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Hungarian: érthetetlen — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Hungarian: megfoghatatlan — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Hungarian: felfoghatatlan — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Indonesian: yg tdk dpt dimengerti — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Indonesian: tdk terpahamkan — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Italian: incomprensibile — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Japanese: 不可解な (fukakai na) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Japanese: 理解できない (rikai dekinai) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Norwegian Bokmål: ubegripelig — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Norwegian Bokmål: ubefattelig — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ubegripeleg — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Occitan: incompreensible — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Plautdietsch: onbejrieplich — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Polish: niezrozumiały — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Portuguese: incompreensível — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Russian: непоня́тный (neponjátnyj) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Russian: непостижи́мый (nepostižímyj) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Russian: невразуми́тельный (nevrazumítelʹnyj) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Scottish Gaelic: do-thuigsinneach — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Spanish: incomprensible — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Spanish: incomprehensible — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Swedish: obegriplig — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Swedish: ofattbar — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Tagalog: di-matingkala — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Turkish: anlaşılmaz — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Ukrainian: незрозумі́лий (nezrozumílyj) — impossible or very difficult to understand
• Ukrainian: незрозумі́лий (nezrozumílyj) — anything that is beyond understanding