"explain" meaning in Inglés

See explain in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɪkˈspleɪn/ [California], /ɛkˈspleɪn/, /ɪkˈsplæɪn/ [Australia] Audio: En-us-explain.ogg [California]
Etymology: Del latín explanare, de ex- con planus ('plano'). Forms: explaining [impersonal, gerund], explained [impersonal, participle], explainest [second-person, indicative, present, archaic], explains [third-person, singular, indicative, present], explaineth [third-person, singular, indicative, present, archaic], explained [first-person, indicative, preterite], explained [second-person, indicative, preterite], explainedst [second-person, indicative, preterite, archaic], explained [third-person, singular, indicative, preterite], explained [third-person, plural, indicative, preterite], have explained [first-person, indicative, compound, past], have explained [second-person, indicative, compound, past], has explained [third-person, singular, indicative, compound, past], have explained [third-person, plural, indicative, compound, past], had explained [first-person, indicative, pluperfect], had explained [second-person, indicative, pluperfect], had explained [third-person, singular, indicative, pluperfect], had explained [third-person, plural, indicative, pluperfect], will explained [first-person, indicative, future], will explained [second-person, indicative, future], will explained [third-person, singular, indicative, future], will explained [third-person, plural, indicative, future], will have explained [first-person, indicative, future, compound], will have explained [second-person, indicative, future, compound], will have explained [third-person, singular, indicative, future, compound], will have explained [third-person, plural, indicative, future, compound], would explained [first-person, conditional], would explained [second-person, conditional], would explained [third-person, singular, conditional], would explained [third-person, plural, conditional], would have explained [first-person, conditional, compound], would have explained [second-person, conditional, compound], would have explained [third-person, singular, conditional, compound], would have explained [third-person, plural, conditional, compound], explained [first-person, subjunctive, preterite], explained [second-person, subjunctive, preterite], explained [third-person, singular, subjunctive, preterite], explained [third-person, plural, subjunctive, preterite], let's explain [third-person, plural, imperative, present]
  1. Explicar.
    Sense id: es-explain-en-verb-uwZMx4Dh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): EN:Palabras bisílabas, EN:Palabras provenientes del latín, EN:Verbos, EN:Verbos regulares, EN:Verbos transitivos, Inglés

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Inglés dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-05 from the eswiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (ddb1505 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.