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English
Etymology
mis- + understand
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Rhymes: -ænd
Verb
misunderstand (third-person singular simple present misunderstands , present participle misunderstanding , simple past and past participle misunderstood )
( transitive ) To understand incorrectly , while believing one has understood correctly.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
Afrikaans: misverstaan
Albanian: keqkuptoj (sq)
Arabic: أَسَاءَ الْفَهْم ( ʔasāʔa l-fahm )
Armenian: սխալ հասկանալ ( sxal haskanal )
Bulgarian: разбирам погрешно ( razbiram pogrešno )
Catalan: malentendre (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 誤會 / 误会 (zh) ( wùhuì ) , 誤解 / 误解 (zh) ( wùjiě )
Czech: neporozumět , špatně pochopit
Danish: misforstå (da)
Dutch: misverstaan (nl)
Esperanto: malinterpreti
Estonian: valesti aru saama
Finnish: ymmärtää väärin , käsittää väärin
French: mal interpréter , méprendre (fr) , mécomprendre (fr)
Galician: malentender
Georgian: არასწორად გაგება ( arasc̣orad gageba )
German: missverstehen (de) , falsch verstehen
Greek: παρεξηγώ (el) ( parexigó )
Haitian Creole: konprann mal
Hindi: ग़लत समझना ( ġalat samajhnā )
Hungarian: félreért (hu)
Icelandic: misskilja
Indonesian: salah paham
Italian: fraintendere (it) , equivocare , prendere una cantonata , prendere un abbaglio , prendere un granchio , male interpretare
Japanese: 勘違いする (ja) ( かんちがい する, kanchigai suru) , 誤解する (ja) ( ごかいする, gokai suru )
Khmer: យល់ខុស ( yʊəl kʰoh )
Korean: 오해하다 (ko) ( ohaehada )
Latin: male teneō , male intellegō , male capiō , male percipiō , male sciō , male comprehendō , fallor , fallō
Malay: salah faham
Malayalam: തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക (ml) ( teṟṟiddharikkuka )
Maori: tuakoi
Mongolian: буруу ойлгох ( buruu ojlgox )
Norwegian: misforstå (no)
Portuguese: entender mal
Russian: неправильно понимать ( nepravilʹno ponimatʹ )
Scottish Gaelic: mì-bhreithnich
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: pogrešno razumjeti
Spanish: malentender (es)
Swedish: missförstå (sv)
Thai: เข้าใจผิด ( kâo-jai-pìt ) , เขว (th) ( kwăy )
Turkish: yanlış anlamak
Urdu: غلط سمجھنا ( ġalat samajhnā )
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