Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).
Pronunciation
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comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)
- Thorough understanding.
- Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
- (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- (programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
- (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
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Translations
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thorough understanding
- Arabic: فَهْم (ar) m (fahm)
- Belarusian: разуме́нне n (razumjénnje)
- Bulgarian: разби́ране (bg) n (razbírane), схващане (bg) n (shvaštane)
- Catalan: comprensió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 理解 (zh) (lǐjiě), 瞭解/了解 (zh) (liǎojiě), (simplified & variant traditional form) 了解 (zh) (liǎojiě)
- Czech: porozumění (cs) n, pochopení (cs) n, chápání (cs) n
- Dutch: begrijpen (nl)
- Esperanto: kompreno
- Finnish: ymmärrys (fi), käsityskyky (fi)
- French: compréhension (fr) f, entendement (fr) m
- Galician: comprensión (gl) f
- German: Verständnis (de) n, Verstehen n
- Greek:
- Ancient: κατάληψις f (katálēpsis)
- Hebrew: הֲבָנָה (he) f (havaná)
- Ido: kompreno (io)
- Italian: comprensione (it) f
- Japanese: 理解 (ja) (りかい, rikai), 了解 (ja) (りょうかい, ryōkai)
- Korean: 이해(理解) (ko) (ihae), 리해(理解) (ko) (rihae) (North Korea), 요해(了解) (ko) (yohae), 료해(了解) (ko) (ryohae) (North Korea)
- Macedonian: разбирање n (razbiranje), сфаќање (sfaḱanje)
- Maori: aroā, aroātanga
- Nepali: बोध (bodh)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forståelse (no) m, begripelse m
- Persian: فهم (fa) (fahm)
- Polish: zrozumienie (pl) n, pojmowanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: compreensão (pt) f
- Romanian: comprehensiune (ro) f
- Russian: понима́ние (ru) n (ponimánije), поня́тие (ru) n (ponjátije), осмысле́ние (ru) n (osmyslénije), разуме́ние (ru) n (razuménije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: разумевање n
- Roman: razumevanje (sh) n
- Slovak: pochopenie n, porozumenie n
- Slovene: razumevanje n
- Spanish: comprensión (es) f, entendimiento (es) m
- Swedish: förståelse (sv) c
- Tagalog: katalusan, talos (tl)
- Tajik: фаҳм (tg) (fahm)
- Turkish: anlayış (tr)
- Ukrainian: розумі́ння (uk) n (rozumínnja), зрозумі́ння n (zrozumínnja)
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