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comprender
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Interlingua
Verb
comprender
- to understand
Conjugation
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, inherited from Latin comprendere, variant of comprehendere. Replaced by the more learned form compreender.
Verb
comprender (first-person singular present comprendo, first-person singular preterite comprendi, past participle comprendido)
- obsolete spelling of compreender, now an occasional misspelling
Conjugation
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Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin comprendere, variant of comprehendere. Cognate with English comprehend.
Pronunciation
Verb
comprender (first-person singular present comprendo, first-person singular preterite comprendí, past participle comprendido)
- to understand, to comprehend
- Synonym: entender
- to comprise; to include
- Synonym: incluir
- 2016 September 30, “Exguerrillero de las FARC reveló rutas de la droga en Ecuador en entrevista con CNN”, in El Universo:
- El guerrillero fue reclutado a la fuerza por las FARC -dijo- para cuidar del cristalizadero de la zona comprendida entre el río Cuembí, en la frontera entre Colombia y Ecuador, y el sitio llamado Bellavista, ubicado en una zona mayormente del territorio ecuatoriano.
- The guerrilla was forcibly recruited by the FARC, he said, to take care of the coke lab in the area included between the Cuembí River, on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, and the site called Bellavista, located in an area mostly from the Ecuadorian territory.
Conjugation
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms
Further reading
- “comprender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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