It appears to me that we misunderstand him.
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Misunderstand
//mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd//
Synonyms for "misunderstand" (45 found)
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Related words (22)
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5 entriesderived from
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2 entriesTranslations
65 translations across 43 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- misverstaan verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Albanian
1 entries- keqkuptoj verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Arabic
1 entries- أَسَاءَ الْفَهْم verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Armenian
1 entries- սխալ հասկանալ verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Bulgarian
1 entries- разбирам погрешно verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Catalan
1 entries- malentendre verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 誤會 /误会 verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- 誤解 /误解 verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Czech
2 entries- neporozumět verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- špatně pochopit verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Danish
1 entries- misforstå verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Dutch
1 entries- misverstaan verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Esperanto
2 entries- malinterpreti verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- miskompreni verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Estonian
1 entries- valesti aru saama verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Finnish
2 entries- käsittää väärin verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- ymmärtää väärin verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
French
3 entries- mal interpréter verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- mécomprendre verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- méprendre verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Galician
1 entries- malentender verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Georgian
1 entries- არასწორად გაგება verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
German
2 entries- falsch verstehen verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- missverstehen verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Greek
1 entries- παρεξηγώ verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- konprann mal verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Hindi
1 entries- ग़लत समझना verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Hungarian
1 entries- félreért verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Icelandic
1 entries- misskilja verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Indonesian
1 entries- salah paham verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Italian
4 entries- equivocare verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- fraintendere verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- male interpretare verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- prendere un abbaglio verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Japanese
2 entries- 勘違いする verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- 誤解する verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Khmer
1 entries- យល់ខុស verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Korean
1 entries- 오해하다 verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Latin
4 entries- fallor verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- fallō verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- male capiō verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- male comprehendō verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Malay
1 entries- salah faham verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Malayalam
1 entries- തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Marathi
1 entries- गैरसमज होणे verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Mongolian
1 entries- буруу ойлгох verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Māori
1 entries- tuakoi verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Norwegian
1 entries- misforstå verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Portuguese
1 entries- entender mal verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Russian
1 entries- неправильно понимать verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mì-bhreithnich verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- pogrešno razumjeti verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Spanish
2 entries- malentender verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- tomarlo [a] mal verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Swedish
1 entries- missförstå verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Thai
2 entries- เขว verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
- เข้าใจผิด verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Turkish
1 entries- yanlış anlamak verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Urdu
1 entries- غلط سمجھنا verb (to understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Don't misunderstand me; we are not making any promises.
Source: tatoeba (240258)
Please don't misunderstand me.
Source: tatoeba (250324)
No, I think you misunderstand.
Source: tatoeba (619953)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.