misunderstand

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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪs.ʌn.dɚˈstænd/
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• rhymes with -ænd
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH2 S AH0 N D ER0 S T AE1 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English mys-understanden, equivalent to mis- + understand.

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: misverstaan — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Albanian: keqkuptoj — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Arabic: أَسَاءَ الْفَهْم (ʔasāʔa l-fahm) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Armenian: սխալ հասկանալ (sxal haskanal) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Azerbaijani: səhv başa düşmək — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Bulgarian: разбирам погрешно (razbiram pogrešno) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Catalan: malentendre — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Chinese Mandarin: 誤會 /误会 (wùhuì) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Chinese Mandarin: 誤解 /误解 (wùjiě) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Czech: neporozumět — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Czech: špatně pochopit — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Danish: misforstå — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Dutch: misverstaan — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Esperanto: miskompreni — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Esperanto: malinterpreti — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Estonian: valesti aru saama — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Finnish: ymmärtää väärin — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Finnish: käsittää väärin — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• French: mal interpréter — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• French: méprendre — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• French: mécomprendre — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Galician: malentender — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Georgian: არასწორად გაგება (arasc̣orad gageba) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• German: missverstehen — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• German: falsch verstehen — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Greek: παρεξηγώ (parexigó) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Greek: παρανοώ (paranoó) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Greek: παρερμηνεύω (parerminévo) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Ancient Greek: παρανοέω (paranoéō) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Haitian Creole: konprann mal — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Hindi: ग़लत समझना (ġalat samajhnā) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Hungarian: félreért — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Icelandic: misskilja — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Indonesian: salah paham — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Italian: fraintendere — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Italian: equivocare — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Italian: prendere una cantonata — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Italian: prendere un abbaglio — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Italian: prendere un granchio — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Italian: male interpretare — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Japanese: 勘違いする (kanchigai suru) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Japanese: 誤解する (gokai suru) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Khmer: យល់ខុស (yʊəl khoh) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Korean: 오해하다 (ohaehada) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: male teneō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: male intellegō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: male capiō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: male percipiō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: male sciō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: male comprehendō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: fallor — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Latin: fallō — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Malay: salah faham — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Malayalam: തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക (teṟṟiddharikkuka) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Māori: tuakoi — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Marathi: गैरसमज होणे (gairsamaj̈ hoṇe) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Mongolian: буруу ойлгох (buruu ojlgox) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Norwegian: misforstå — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Polish: źle rozumieć — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Polish: źle zrozumieć — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Portuguese: entender mal — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Russian: неправильно понимать (nepravilʹno ponimatʹ) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-bhreithnich — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Serbo-Croatian: pogrešno razumjeti — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Spanish: malentender — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Spanish: tomarlo [a] mal — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Swedish: missförstå — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Thai: เข้าใจผิด (kâo-jai-pìt) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Thai: เขว (kwăy) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Turkish: yanlış anlamak — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
• Urdu: غلط سمجھنا (ġalat samajhnā) — to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly