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No. 7,083 in Spanish

explican

"They explain."

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  • Ellos explican el nuevo concepto a los estudiantes.

    They explain the new concept to the students.

    The word 'explican' here is used as the verb form in the third person plural of 'explicar', meaning 'to explain', indicating that a group of individuals (they) are clarifying a concept.

  • ¿Cómo se explican estos eventos tan extraños?

    How are these very strange events explained?

    Here, 'explican' is used in a reflexive construction ('se explican') that denotes the question of how these events are understood or explained within the sentence.

  • Los profesores explican cada tema con mucho detalle.

    The teachers explain each topic in great detail.

    In this usage, 'explican' again serves as the plural form verb directly referring to 'teachers' as the subject actively performing the explanation.

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