The duty of defence does not lie on tourists, who are at best hardly able to understand what it matters whether a wall is buttressed without or within, and whether a roof is single or double.
He could not make even his novices understand what he meant.
But I still was at a loss to understand what it had to do with me, or what was the purport of his presence in my room.
Then it was some moments before I could get him to understand what it was I wanted him to do.
You may play the lunatic, and play it excellently well, but that you do understand what is said to you is clear.
It's not always easy to understand what we are --it's generally after we've become something else that we comprehend what we have been.
I've tried to tell you that, too, only you didn't seem to understand what I was saying.
The man who ought to be condemned isn't the man that doesn't understand what's going on, but the man who comes to understand and persists in opposing it.
Stella, you who know my great love for him, and next to that my love for what I regard as our calling, who know the strength of my affection for my sisters, will be able to understand what a hard conflict there is in store for me.
Now for the first time we understand what De Genestet[1] means in his Terugblik: What we wish and will and strive for We pray high powers to grant.
O true believers, come not to prayers when ye are drunk,b until ye understand what ye say; nor when ye are polluted by emission of seed, unless ye be travelling on the road, until ye wash yourselves.
No sooner were the guns brought out than the dogs, beginning to understand what was in the air, bounded from one to another of the lads, barking and yelping with keen delight.
He, too, was at a loss to understand what it was that his delicate young friend was planning.
At first, with the bright reflection in his eyes, the guide was unable to understand what it was that had caused their sudden fright.
She can't understand what I have done which gives you any title to call yourself my friend--you!
In order to understand what kind of moral education students in Roman Catholic colleges receive, one must only be told that from beginning to the end they are surrounded by an atmosphere in which nothing but Paganism is breathed.
At the beginning of his discourse I had some difficulty to understand what he said.
At these words Beatrix was confused; but to understand what it meant, she changed her clothing, and going to the convent, inquired after Sister Beatrix.
Those who have dwelt most on it, and value it most, may be most apt to understand what I mean by calling it incredible.
The background will help usunderstand what had to be done, and what it was he meant to do.
An expression ungrammatical enough to be quite worthy, Max would say, of his little lady, but people who are married will understand what it means.
How, when at last I learned to appreciate her, and to understand what a sorely-tried life hers had been, there came not only respect, but love.
But how can such an one as he understand what it must be to be a father!
Let us understand what is meant by the Church of God.
Let us understand what really is the victory over fear.
It is our business, therefore, in the first place, to understand what is meant by this threefold division.
As we have endeavoured to explain what is meant by unity, so now, let us endeavour to understand what is meant by peace.
I was going to say that if you'd ever seen the kind of thing that's going on round you, you'd understand what it is that makes me and men like me politicians.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "understand what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
