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Common collocations with intelligible in American Collocation

intelligible adjective

US /ɪnˈtelɪdʒəb(ə)l/

completely

fully
perfectly

Her speech is not perfect, but she is perfectly intelligible.

hardly

barely
scarcely

The Latin text is scarcely intelligible.

easily

easily
readily

The discussion will be readily intelligible to a broad readership.

when two people or groups can understand each other

mutually

Swedish is closely related to, and often mutually intelligible with, Danish and Norwegian.

account
explanation
language
sentence
speech
word

The language is intelligible even to a child.

be
become
make something
render something

His statement only becomes intelligible when we acknowledge that he is using irony.

The EU can be made to work and its workings can be made intelligible.