Arabic vocabulary
يَقْدِرbe able to
How to say “be able to” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
لا يشبهه شئ من كلام الخلق ولا يقدر على مثله الخلق بأسرهم
Nothing from the speech of creation resembles it, nor can the entire creation produce anything like it.
يَقْدِرُ — can. 'is able,' negated — none is able. It reaches its complement through 'on' (the next word), and its doer, 'the creation,' is held back to the end of the clause for weight.
From: Devotion to the Quran →
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