savvy
To understandTo understand.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Translations
5 languagesMeaning
1 senses(informal)To understand.
kapieren, schnallen, verstehen
- get the meaning of something
Origin
Alteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from PortugueAlteration of save, sabi (“to know”) (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe (“[she/he] knows”), from saber (“to know”), from Latin sapere (“to taste; to know”). First appears c. 1785 in a dictionary by Francis Grose, as a noun, “practical sense, intelligence”; also a verb, “to know, to understand”. The adjective is first recorded 1905, from the noun.
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Forms
savvies, savvying, savvied, savviedTenses
savvy · savvied · will savvy · have savviedSynonyms
7 synonyms- get the meaning of something:grokget the picturecomprehenddiggraspcompassapprehend
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
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