Arabic vocabulary
تَسْتَطِيعُis able to
How to say “is able to” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وأعلم الزاهدين أنها لا تستطيع ثباتا،
And He informed the ascetics that it cannot endure,
تَسْتَطِيعُ — is able to. A present-tense verb meaning 'is able to', caught under the negation before it, with its feminine 'it' subject built in to agree with the world. The pair means 'it cannot', and the verb governs the noun that names what it cannot do.
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