Meaning of povi | Babel Free

Definitions

to be able to; can (to have the ability to do something)

intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Mi povas piediri.”

I can walk.

“1910, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the sixth World Congress of Esperanto in Washington, D.C.”

Only very few of us could come to your country, because we, Esperantists, are not rich people.

“"Nu, ĉu vi ne vidas kiom ni estas?" li demandis. "Kiel mi ne povus vidi?"”

"Well, don't you see how many of us there are?" he asked. "How could I not see?"

“Mikronovelo estas eĉ pli mallonga: ekzemple ĝi povus konsisti el nur 500 vortoj; aŭ 300; aŭ precize 100 vortoj, kiel la ekzemplo sube;”

A micro-novella is even shorter: for example it could consist of only 500 words; or 300; or precisely 100 words, like the example below;

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