Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To tell (someone) step by step how to do something.

    The dispatcher will have to talk him through landing the plane in the middle of a hurricane!

    объяснятьobʺjasnjatʹ

  2. To comfort someone as they endure trauma; to help someone consider an issue or see certain aspects of it.

    I'll talk him through the problem.

    She's utterly grief-stricken, so I'm going over to talk her through it.

    поддерживатьpodderživatʹ

Examples

32 sentences
  1. We really need to talk this through.

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  2. Let's just talk this through.

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  3. We can talk this through.

    deWir können das ausdiskutieren.

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  4. I'll talk you through it.

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  5. You are talking through the nose.

    ruТы говоришь в нос.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to tell someone step by step how to do something:
to comfort someone as they endure trauma; to help someone consider an issue or see certain aspects of it:

Forms

talks through, talking through, talked through, talked through
Base formtalk through · to talk through
3rd person singulartalks through
Present participletalking through
Past simpletalked through
Past participletalked through

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytalk through
he, she, ittalks through

Past simpleLesson

all personstalked through

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave talked through
he, she, ithas talked through

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill talk through

Phrasal verbs

10 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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