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English
Etymology
From Middle French intelligible, from Old French, from Latin intelligibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intelligible (comparative more intelligible, superlative most intelligible)
- Capable of being understood; clear to the mind.
Italian and Spanish are mutually intelligible languages.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
capable of being understood
- Arabic: بائِن (bāʔin), بَيّن (ar), مُبِين (mubīn), مُتّضِح, مُتَجَلٍ (mutajalin), وَضّاح (waḍḍāḥ)
- Bulgarian: разбираем (bg) (razbiraem), понятен (bg) (ponjaten)
- Catalan: intel·ligible (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 可理解的 (kělǐjiě de)
- Czech: srozumitelný (cs)
- Dutch: verstaanbaar (nl), begrijpelijk (nl)
- Estonian: arusaadav
- Finnish: ymmärrettävä (fi)
- French: intelligible (fr)
- Galician: intelixíbel (gl)
- German: einleuchtend (de), verständlich (de)
- Greek: νοητός (el) (noïtós), καταληπτός (el) (kataliptós)
- Irish: sothuigthe, intuigthe
- Italian: intelligibile (it)
- Macedonian: поимлив (poimliv)
- Maltese: fhumi
- Manx: so-hoiggal
- Norwegian: forståelig (no)
- Persian: مفهوم (fa) (mafhum)
- Polish: zrozumiały (pl)
- Portuguese: inteligível (pt)
- Romanian: inteligibil (ro)
- Russian: вразуми́тельный (ru) (vrazumítelʹnyj), поня́тный (ru) (ponjátnyj), умопостига́емый (umopostigájemyj)
- Spanish: inteligible (es)
- Swedish: begriplig (sv)
- Turkish: açık (tr), anlaşılır, idrâk edilebilir, anlaşılabilir
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See also
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin intelligibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
intelligible (plural intelligibles)
- intelligible
- Antonym: inintelligible
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin intelligibilis.
Adjective
intelligible m or f (plural intelligibles)
- intelligible