أَقْدِرُI can

Example sentences

• وَغَيْرُ ذَلِكَ مِنْ كُلِّ كِتَابٍ أَقْدِرُ عَلَيْهِ،

  and other things from every book I can handle.

  أَقْدِرُ — I can. A present-tense verb with an 'I' subject built into its prefix, opening a short relative clause that describes the books: the ones I am able to manage. It needs no relative word in front because the noun it follows is indefinite, where Arabic attaches such clauses directly. The verb's prefix alone carries the speaker.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →