comprender

Interlingua

Verb

comprender

1. to understand

Conjugation

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, inherited from Latin comprendere, variant of comprehendere. Replaced by the more learned form compreender.

Verb

comprender (first-person singular present comprendo, first-person singular preterite comprendi, past participle comprendido)

1. Obsolete spelling of compreender, now an occasional misspelling

Conjugation

Spanish

Alternative forms

• comprehender (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin comprendere, variant of comprehendere, present active infinitive of comprehendō. Cognate with English comprehend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kompɾenˈdeɾ/

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: com‧pren‧der

Verb

comprender (first-person singular present comprendo, first-person singular preterite comprendí, past participle comprendido)

1. to understand, to comprehend

   Synonym: entender

2. to comprise; to include

   Synonym: incluir

   • 2016 September 30, “Exguerrillero de las FARC reveló rutas de la droga en Ecuador en entrevista con CNN”, in El Universo‎:

     El guerrillero fue reclutado a la fuerza por las FARC -dijo- para cuidar del cristalizadero de la zona comprendida entre el río Cuembí, en la frontera entre Colombia y Ecuador, y el sitio llamado Bellavista, ubicado en una zona mayormente del territorio ecuatoriano.

     The guerrilla was forcibly recruited by the FARC, he said, to take care of the coke lab in the area included between the Cuembí River, on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, and the site called Bellavista, located in an area mostly from the Ecuadorian territory.

Conjugation

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Further reading

• “comprender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014