能够

能夠traditional

HSK 4#481 by frequencyradical ⺼

néng gòu["v"]

to be capable of; to be able to; can

Examples

她不能够见他。

She wasn't able to meet him.

我希望能够戒烟。

I wish I could give up smoking.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.