English
Etymology
From Middle English mys-understanden, equivalent to mis- + understand.
Pronunciation
Verb
misunderstand (third-person singular simple present misunderstands, present participle misunderstanding, simple past and past participle misunderstood)
- (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:We found that teen drivers and the public largely misunderstand the legal status of cannabis use and do not fully recognize the risks of cannabis-impaired driving.
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Derived terms
Translations
to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly
- Afrikaans: misverstaan
- Albanian: keqkuptoj (sq)
- Arabic: أَسَاءَ الْفَهْم (ʔasāʔa l-fahm)
- Armenian: սխալ հասկանալ (sxal haskanal)
- Bulgarian: разбирам погрешно (razbiram pogrešno)
- Catalan: malentendre (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 誤會 / 误会 (zh) (wùhuì), 誤解 / 误解 (zh) (wùjiě)
- Czech: neporozumět, špatně pochopit
- Danish: misforstå (da)
- Dutch: misverstaan (nl)
- Esperanto: malinterpreti
- Estonian: valesti aru saama
- Finnish: ymmärtää väärin, käsittää väärin
- French: mal interpréter, méprendre (fr), mécomprendre (fr)
- Galician: malentender
- Georgian: არასწორად გაგება (arasc̣orad gageba)
- German: missverstehen (de), falsch verstehen
- Greek: παρεξηγώ (el) (parexigó)
- Haitian Creole: konprann mal
- Hindi: ग़लत समझना (ġalat samajhnā)
- Hungarian: félreért (hu)
- Icelandic: misskilja
- Indonesian: salah paham
- Italian: fraintendere (it), equivocare, prendere una cantonata, prendere un abbaglio, prendere un granchio, male interpretare
- Japanese: 勘違いする (ja) (かんちがいする, kanchigai suru), 誤解する (ja) (ごかいする, gokai suru)
- Khmer: យល់ខុស (yʊəl kʰoh)
- Korean: 오해하다 (ko) (ohaehada)
- Latin: male teneō, male intellegō, male capiō, male percipiō, male sciō, male comprehendō, fallor, fallō
- Malay: salah faham
- Malayalam: തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക (ml) (teṟṟiddharikkuka)
- Maori: tuakoi
- Marathi: गैरसमज होणे (gairsamaj̈ hoṇe)
- Mongolian: буруу ойлгох (buruu ojlgox)
- Norwegian: misforstå (no)
- Portuguese: entender mal
- Russian: неправильно понимать (nepravilʹno ponimatʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-bhreithnich
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: pogrešno razumjeti
- Spanish: malentender (es), tomarlo [a] mal
- Swedish: missförstå (sv)
- Thai: เข้าใจผิด (kâo-jai-pìt), เขว (th) (kwăy)
- Turkish: yanlış anlamak
- Urdu: غلط سمجھنا (ġalat samajhnā)
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