poder

A1Rank #358

to be able to, can

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#358 of 5,000

Conjugate poder - all tenses →

Como entrenador, tengo que poderme bien a todos mis jugadores.

As a coach, I must know my players really well.

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"poder" in example sentences

"poder" appears in 11,942 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation, counting 34 spellings (its conjugated forms). Here are 3 of them.

No vamos a poder hacer más que esto.

We won't be able to do more than this.

Tatoeba #10272482

No podré hacer esto nunca.

I'm never going to be able to do this.

Tatoeba #3983848

Lo siento, no creo que yo pueda.

I'm sorry, I don't think I'll be able to.

Tatoeba #1222172

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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