Summary
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- be able:
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Wiktionary:
- be able → pouvoir faire, être capable de faire
English
Detailed Translations for could from English to French
could form of be able:
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to be able
pouvoir; savoir; être capable de; savoir faire; être en état de; avoir le sens de-
pouvoir verb (peux, peut, pouvons, pouvez, peuvent, pouvais, pouvait, pouvions, pouviez, pouvaient, pus, put, pûmes, pûtes, purent, pourrai, pourras, pourra, pourrons, pourrez, pourront)
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savoir verb (sais, sait, savons, savez, savent, savais, savait, savions, saviez, savaient, sus, sut, sûmes, sûtes, surent, saurai, sauras, saura, saurons, saurez, sauront)
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être capable de verb
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savoir faire verb
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être en état de verb
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avoir le sens de verb
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to be able (may)
Conjugations for be able:
present
- can
- can
- can
- can
- can
- can
simple past
- could
- could
- could
- could
- could
- could
present perfect
- have been able
- have been able
- has been able
- have been able
- have been able
- have been able
past continuous
- was being able
- were being able
- was being able
- were being able
- were being able
- were being able
future
- shall be able
- will be able
- will be able
- shall be able
- will be able
- will be able
continuous present
- am being able
- are being able
- is being able
- are being able
- are being able
- are being able
subjunctive
- be able
- be able
- be able
- be able
- be able
- be able
diverse
- am able!
- let's be able!
- been able
- are able
1. I, 2. you, 3. he/she/it, 4. we, 5. you, 6. they
Translation Matrix for be able:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| pouvoir | authorities; authority; capacity; command; competence; control; dominion; establishment; force; mandate; mastery; power; qualification; right of say; rule; strength; warrant | |
| savoir | ability; cleverness; erudition; expertise; handiness; knowledge; learning; scholarship; science; skill | |
| Verb | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| avoir le sens de | be able | |
| pouvoir | be able; may | be allowed to; have permission; may |
| savoir | be able | be informed; know |
| savoir faire | be able | |
| être capable de | be able | |
| être en état de | be able |
Wiktionary Translations for be able:
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
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| • be able | → pouvoir faire; être capable de faire | ↔ vermögen — in der Lage sein, etwas zu tun |