Betekenis van catch on In het Nederlands

• 0 to become fashionable or popular:

  • I wonder if the game will ever catch on with young people?

• 1 to understand, especially after a long time:

  • He doesn't take hints very easily, but he'll catch on (to what you're saying) eventually.

• 2 to become fashionable or popular:

  • Why did the electronic gadget catch on so fast?

• 3 to understand:

  • We were teasing Jim, but he was slow to catch on that we were joking.

• 4 to become popular:

  • He invented a type of virtual reality helmet, but it never caught on.

  • Online trading has been slow to catch on in this part of the country.

• 5 to understand something:

  • Younger people catch on right away. It is older people that need to be convinced.

  • catch on to sth They are slowly catching on to the fact that this decision has made them very unpopular.