English
Pronunciation
Verb
make sense (third-person singular simple present makes sense, present participle making sense, simple past and past participle made sense)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
- The thing doesn’t make sense to me.
- Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, with of) To decipher or understand.
- Can you make sense of her handwriting?
Synonyms
Translations
be coherent
- Asturian: tener sentíu
- Bulgarian: има смисъл (ima smisǎl)
- Catalan: tenir sentit, fer sentit
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有意義/有意义, 有意义 (yǒu yìyì), 有道理 (zh) (yǒu dàolǐ)
- Czech: dávat smysl
- Danish: give mening
- Dutch: kloppen (nl), zinvol (nl) zijn, betekenisvol (nl) zijn
- Esperanto: havi sencon
- Finnish: olla järkeä
- French: avoir du sens (fr), tenir debout (fr) (France, familiar), faire sens (fr)
- German: Sinn ergeben, sinnvoll sein, Sinn geben, Sinn machen
- Hungarian: logikus (hu), értelmes (hu), érthető (hu)
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Irish: ciall a bheith le
- Italian: avere senso
- Japanese: 意味する (ja) (いみする, imi-surú), 意味が通る (ja) (いみがとおる, imi-ga tōru)
- Norwegian: gi mening
- Persian: قابل فهم (fa)
- Portuguese: fazer sentido
- Romanian: a avea sens
- Russian: име́ть смысл (imétʹ smysl), быть поня́тным (bytʹ ponjátnym), поня́тно (ru) (ponjátno) (adverb)
- Scottish Gaelic: dèan tuigse
- Spanish: tener sentido (es), ser lógico, encajar (es), cuadrar (es)
- Swedish: vara begriplig, gå ihop, gå i hop, låta vettig, vara vettig, kännas vettig
- Turkish: mantıklı (tr)
- Welsh: gwneud synnwyr
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decipher, understand
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 理解 (zh) (lǐjiě), 懂得 (zh) (dǒngde)
- Dutch: ontcijferen (nl), verstaan (nl), snappen (nl)
- Finnish: saada selvää (fi)
- German: schlau werden aus, verstehen (de), begreifen (de)
- Hungarian: kihámoz (hu)
- Irish: ciall a bhaint as
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Italian: dare un senso, capire (it), decifrare (it)
- Japanese: 納得する (なっとくする, nattoku-surú)
- Portuguese: entender (pt)
- Russian: понима́ть (ru) (ponimátʹ), разбира́ть (ru) (razbirátʹ)
- Spanish: entender (es)
- Swedish: begripa (sv), förstå (sv), tyda (sv), få ut något av
- Turkish: anlaşılabilir
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