accommodate

fassen, aufnehmen

Genug Platz haben, um Menschen oder Dinge aufzunehmen.

In einfachem Englisch: If something can hold people or things, it has enough space for them.

• This hall can accommodate two hundred people.
• The garage accommodates both cars easily.
• Can the shelves accommodate these larger books?

Synonyme: hold, fit

Häufige Wendungen: accommodate ten people, accommodate more seats

entgegenkommen, berücksichtigen

Dinge so organisieren, dass sie den Bedürfnissen oder Wünschen einer Person entsprechen.

In einfachem Englisch: If you help someone in this way, you arrange things to meet their needs or wishes.

• We can accommodate your request.
• The teacher accommodated her need for extra time.
• Can you accommodate customers with food allergies?

Synonyme: help, assist, oblige

Häufige Wendungen: accommodate someone, accommodate special needs

unterbringen, beherbergen

Menschen einen Ort zum Wohnen, Übernachten oder Arbeiten zur Verfügung stellen.

In einfachem Englisch: If a place houses people, it gives them somewhere to live, stay, or work.

• The hotel can accommodate your family.
• The college accommodated students in nearby houses.
• Temporary cabins accommodate workers during the summer.

Synonyme: house, lodge

Häufige Wendungen: accommodate guests, accommodate students

anpassen, sich anpassen

Sich selbst oder etwas so verändern, dass es zu einer neuen Situation passt.

In einfachem Englisch: To change yourself or something so that it fits a new situation.

• We must accommodate ourselves to these changes.
• He accommodated his routine to the new timetable.
• They gradually accommodated themselves to life abroad.

So benutzt man es: accommodate oneself to something (She had to accommodate herself to the slower pace.)

Synonyme: adapt, adjust

Häufige Wendungen: accommodate oneself to something, accommodate something to something

anpassen, in Einklang bringen

Eine Aussage oder Lehre so auslegen, dass sie zu bestimmten Tatsachen oder Ereignissen passt.

In einfachem Englisch: To explain a statement or teaching in a way that makes it fit particular facts or events.

• They accommodate the teaching to modern circumstances.
• The scholar accommodated the passage to known historical events.
• She tried to accommodate his statement to the facts.

So benutzt man es: accommodate something to something (He accommodated the ancient prophecy to recent events.)

Synonyme: adapt, fit

Häufige Wendungen: accommodate prophecy to events, accommodate teachings to circumstances