misunderstand

Wikipedia

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ understand

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪsʌn.də(r)ˈstænd/

Verb

misunderstand (third-person singular simple present misunderstands, present participle misunderstanding, simple past and past participle misunderstood)

1. To understand incorrectly, while thinking to have understood correctly.

Translations

to understand incorrectly, while thinking to have understood correctly

• Albanian: keqkuptoj (sq)
• Arabic: اساء الفهم (’asá’a-l-fáhem)
• Armenian: սխալ հասկանալ (səxal haskanal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 誤會 (cmn), 误会 (cmn) (wùhuì)

• Croatian: pogrešno razumjeti
• Czech: neporozumět, špatně pochopit
• Danish: misforstå (da)
• Dutch: misverstaan (nl)
• Esperanto: malinterpreti (eo)
• Estonian: valesti aru saama
• Finnish: käsittää/ymmärtää väärin
• French: mal interpréter
• Georgian: არასწორად გაგება (arasts‘orad gageba)
• German: missverstehen (de), falsch verstehen (de)
• Greek: παρεξηγώ (el) (parexigó)
• Hindi: ग़लत समझना (galat samajhnā)
• Hungarian: félreért (hu)
• Indonesian: salah paham

• Italian: fraintendere (it), equivocare (it)
• Japanese: 勘違いする (かんちがいする, kanchigai suru), 誤解する (ごかいする, gokai suru)
• Khmer: យល់ខុស (km) (yʊəl kʰoh)
• Korean: 오해하다 (ohaehada)
• Latin: male teneo, male intellego, male capio, male percipio, male scio, male comprehendo, fallor (la), fallo (la)
• Malay: salah faham
• Mongolian: буруу ойлгох (mn) (buruu oylgoh)
• Norwegian: misforstå (no)
• Portuguese: entender mal
• Russian: неправильно понимать (neprávil’no ponimát’)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-bhreithnich (gd)
• Spanish: entender mal
• Swedish: missförstå (sv)
• Thai: เข้าใจผิด (kâo jai pìt), เขว (kwăy)
• Turkish: yanlış anlamak
• Urdu: غلط سمجھنا (galat samajhnā)