can, to be able to · may, can, to be allowed to · to be possible
çekim: geçmiş konden · ortaç gekund · şimdiki kan · ulaç kunnend
köken: From Middle Dutch connen, cunnen, from Old Dutch cunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.
aile: aankunnen, achter het behang kunnen plakken, alleskunner, geen pap meer kunnen zeggen, het kan wel lijden, kunde, kunst
Hij kon goed rennen, omdat hij een getraind sportbeoefenaar was.
to know (be acquainted or familiar with) · to meet; to get to know (to become acquainted with) · to know (someone/something) (to ascribe to something the title or quality of)
çekim: geçmiş conheci · ortaç conhecido · şimdiki conhece
zıt: desconhecer
köken: From older conhocer, from Old Galician-Portuguese connocer, from Latin cognōscere.
Não conheço esse livro.
Venha cá, quero que você conheça meu primo.
A Jussara estava a fim de um cara e bolou um plano para conhecê-lo. Ou para ele a conhecer.
to be able to do · to be finished, to be ready · be made
çekim: geçmiş できた
eş: 成る, 仕上がる, 出来上がる
köken: /ideku/ → /deku/ → /dekuru/ → /dekiru/ Originally appears in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE and other Old Japanese texts as 出(い)で来(く) (ideku), as a compound of 出(い)で (ide, “going out”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 出(い)づ (izu, ancient idu, ancient form of modern 出(で)る (deru, “to come out, to go out”))) + 来(く) (ku, “to come”, the ancient form of modern 来(く)る…
ジョンさんはフランス語ができる。
準備は出来た。 Junbi wa dekita. Preparations are finished. → I'm ready. よくできましたね。
to be able to, be capable of, can, be competent at
çekim: geçmiş kyennyt · şimdiki kykenee · ulaç kykenevä
köken: kyk- + -etä. The root is of unknown origin, but shared with kyky. Cognate with Ingrian kyetä and Karelian kyvetä, which may both be borrowed from Finnish. According to Koponen (1998), furthermore possibly related to Võro küündima (“to reach”) (? < *kügV-ntü-).
to understand · to mean, construe (either with úgy or with -n/-on/-en/-ön / alatt) · be familiar with, be skilled at something (-hoz/-hez/-höz)
çekim: geçmiş értettek
köken: ér (“to reach”) + -t (instantaneous suffix). The original sense probably was “to touch”. Compare English to get something in the sense of “to understand”.
köken: Possibly cognate with Arabic وَكَلَ (wakala, “to trust”), also found in Akkadian and Ethiopic, from Proto-Semitic *wakal-. Alternatively, Huehnergard and Olyan propose k-h-l as the proto-root.
know (be acquainted or familiar with) · recognise as one’s own (with the preposition ved) · to feel
çekim: geçmiş kendte · ortaç kendt · ulaç kendende
köken: From Old Danish kænnæ, from Old Norse kenna (“know, feel”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną. Cognate with Swedish känna, German kennen, English ken. A causative form of *kunnaną (“to know”).
venom: a poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging · bad: unfavorable, negative, evil, unhealthy
çekim: çoğul bisa-bisa
köken: From Malay bisa (“venom”), from Sanskrit विष (viṣa, “poison”), Proto-Indo-Aryan *wiṣás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wišás, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison”). Doublet of virus.