قَدِرَ be able in Arabic
قَدِرَ is how you say “be able” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَكُلُّ قَوْمِهَا كَانَ حَرِيصًا عَلَى نِكَاحِهَا لَوْ قَدِرَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ،
And each of her people would have been eager to marry her if he had been able to do so.
قَدِرَ had been able
A past-tense verb ('was able'), with its 'he' subject built in, serving as the verb of the unreal 'if' clause. Under 'if' of this kind the past form carries a 'had been able' contrary-to-fact sense rather than a plain past.
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