Comprehensible to is the standard pattern when something can be understood by someone. Other prepositions usually serve different functions or sound unnatural.
Use comprehensible to for the person or group that can understand something. Comprehensible in, by, for, and as are usually not fixed adjective-preposition patterns with comprehensible.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use comprehensible to with the audience or reader who can understand the information.
Fully comprehensible to stresses complete understanding for a group.
Use not comprehensible to when something cannot easily be understood by someone.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
To is the standard preposition for the audience who understands something.
✕ The article is comprehensible for beginners. ✓ The article is comprehensible to beginners.By usually introduces the means or agent, not the audience.
✕ The speech was comprehensible by students. ✓ The speech was comprehensible to students.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It is the standard and most natural pattern.
It is possible in some contexts, but comprehensible to is more natural for audiences or readers.
By usually introduces the means or reason something became understandable, not the normal complement after comprehensible.
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