skaidrot
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same source as skaidrs (“clear”), made into a second-conjugation verb (ending -ot).[1]
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]skaidrot (transitive, 2nd conjugation, present skaidroju, skaidro, skaidro, past skaidroju)
- to explain (to make something clearer, more understandable, easier to perceive to someone, by, e.g., talking about it,)
- skaidrot vārda nozīmi ― to explain the meaning of a word
- skaidrot matemātikas uzdevumu ― to explain the math problem
- “kā tad čūskas sit?” zēni vaicāja; “Nevajag atvēzēties,” Inga skaidroja, “ka neuzmet sev uz galvas” ― “how can we hit a snake?” the boys asked; “don't reach out,” Inga explained, “so that it doesn't throw itself on (your) head”
- pagalmā bija izsteigušies kāda sieviete un raudādama skaidroja kazakiem, ka mūsu dzīvoklī esot bērni, lai jel nešaujot uz mums ― some woman had rushed out into the yard and, crying, explained to the Cossacks that in our apartment there were children, so that they wouldn't shoot on us
- to explain (to find the essential features or the causes of something by analyzing and organizing facts, ideas, etc.; to contain information about the essential features or causes of something)
- skaidrot sarežģītas dabas parādības ― to explain complex natural phenomena
- skaidrojošā vārdnīca ― an explanatory dictionary (i.e., a dictionary in which words are defined rather than translated into another language)
- anatoms Santorio visus organismā noritošos procesus skaidroja no mehānikas viedokļa ― the anatomist Santorio explained all ongoing processes in the body from a mechanical standpoint
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “skaidrs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN