0 without decoration or extra things added -- enkel
1 easy to see or understand -- lettfattelig
The union refused to accept it, plain and simple. Fagforeningen nektet å godta det. rett og slett.
He prides himself on his plain speaking. Han er stolt av sin åpenhjertige tale.
He made it plain that he was not interested. Han gjorde det klart at han ikke var interessert.
a document written in plain English et dokument skrevet på lettfattelig engelsk
It was plain that the plan wasn’t working. Det var åpenbart at planen ikke virket.
2 (of a person) not very pretty or attractive -- vanlig
a plain child en vanlig unge
3 a large flat area of land -- slette [ masculine-feminine ]
the plains of the Midwestern U.S. slettene i det amerikanske Midtvesten
4 emphasizes a bad quality -- rett og slett
That was just plain stupid! Det der var bare rett og slett dumt!
5 simple or ordinary; without ornament or decoration -- enkel, alminnelig, vanlig
The intensive cultivation of strawberries is only the latest in the long line of transformations of the plains' agriculture.
Because of the slowness of transit, these had to be entered much ahead of the time when the supply situation in the plains became known.
Local informants have not reported the existence of wells outside the city on karstic plains to the north, east, and south.
The province's fertile plains and widespread landownership added two important elements to the general prosperity of the time.
Mechanism independence in texture-modulation detection plained without the need to invoke a stage of processing which makes explicit the feature content of the stimulus.
At about 1500 m, the vertical difference between the savanna plains (around 800 m) and the study sites (2250 m) is large.
Both study farms were in the flood plains of large creeks, in locations which were chosen for their accessibility and flat ground.
A piedmont zone of c. 40 km in width separates the mountain range from the eastern plains (elevation ranging from 100 to 200 m).
