B2verb
cerner
to pin down, to grasp
« Il est difficile de cerner les causes exactes de ce phénomène. »
“It is difficult to pin down the exact causes of this phenomenon.”
In other languages
- Spanish delimitar, acotar
- Portuguese delimitar, circunscrever
- German eingrenzen
- Italian circoscrivere, delimitare
- Arabic يُحدّد بدقة
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