Pronunciation
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figure out (third-person singular simple present figures out, present participle figuring out, simple past and past participle figured out)
- (informal) To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
- As soon as I figure out what is wrong with my car, I will fix it.
2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:In a bid to understand the eternal mystery that is woman, Bart goes to the least qualified possible source for advice and counsel: his father, who remarkably seems to have made it to his mid-30s without quite figuring out much of anything.
- (informal) To calculate.
- We'd already figured out that the trip would cost $1,000.
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come to understand
- Catalan: deduir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 弄清楚 (nòng qīngchǔ)
- Danish: finde ud af
- Dutch: uitvogelen (nl), er achter komen, ontcijferen (nl), doorhebben (nl)
- Finnish: tajuta (fi), hoksata (fi), selvittää (fi)
- French: cerner (fr)
- Galician: comprender (gl), captar, adiviñar (gl), darse conta
- German: herausfinden (de)
- Greek: βγάζω νόημα (vgázo nóima)
- Hebrew: הֵבִין (he), מצא תשובה
- Hungarian: rájön (hu)
- Indonesian: mengerti (id), menemukan (id), menemukan solusi
- Italian: scoprire (it), rendersi conto, dedurre (it)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: finne ut
- Portuguese: descobrir (pt), deduzir (pt), entender (pt), dar-se conta (pt)
- Russian: разбира́ться (ru) impf (razbirátʹsja), разобра́ться (ru) pf (razobrátʹsja), постига́ть (ru) impf (postigátʹ), пости́гнуть (ru) pf (postígnutʹ), пости́чь (ru) pf (postíčʹ)
- Spanish: deducir (es), darse cuenta (es), descubrir (es)
- Swedish: (more sly) lista ut (sv), (more problem-oriented) klura ut
- Turkish: açığa çıkarmak (tr)
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