Understand has 3 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
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| 1. | The words in our dictionary are split into four categories: those which we understand and we use, those which we understand but don't use, those which we don't understand and don't use and finally those which we don't understand and still use. | |
| 2. | Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world. | |
| 3. | If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics. | |
| 4. | In fact history does not belong to us but rather we to it. Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society, and state in which we live. | |
| 5. | When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf. | |
| 6. | To understand recursion you first need to understand recursion. | |
| 7. | I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. | |
| 8. | But you cannot understand. How could you understand what it is to feel old? | |
| 9. | Tom and Mary did not even understand the deeper meaning of the sentence they were in, thinking to themselves that it must be really hard to understand the meaning of sentences they were not in. | |
| 10. | Through what way could they understand each other? -They could understand each other through a common language. |