podían

B1Rank #2778

they were able to (imperfect form of poder)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#2778 of 5,000

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"podían" in example sentences

"podían" appears in 20 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Ellos no estaban seguros de si podían venir o no.

They were not sure whether they could come or not.

Tatoeba #2363413

Ellos solo podían escuchar.

They could only listen.

Tatoeba #1387592

Estaba tan oscuro que apenas podían ver.

It was so dark that they could hardly see.

Tatoeba #1732429

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

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