Collocations for relate - verb

closely
directly, specifically
The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.

somehow
All these works relate somehow to the artist's emotional life.

primarily
Our work primarily relates to product design.

be able to, can
attempt to, try to
be difficult to, find sth difficult to
I found it difficult to relate the two ideas in my mind.

to
Our product needs an image that people can relate to.

the ability to relate to sb/sth
an attempt to relate sth
Attempts to relate studies on animals to those on humans are not really comparing like with like.

Relate is used with these nouns as the object:
anecdote, event, experience, history, incident, information, story, tale