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δύναμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύναμαι δυνήσομαι ἐδυνησάμην δεδύνημαι

Structure: δύνα (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: decl. in pres. and imperf. like i(/stamai

Sense

  1. (with infinitive) to be able, capable, strong enough to do
  2. (of moral possibility) to be able, to dare, to bear to do
  3. (with ὡς ‎(hōs) and a superlative) as much as one can

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπε Μωυσῆσ. δέομαι, Κύριε, προχείρισαι δυνάμενον ἄλλον, ὃν ἀποστελεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 4:13)
  • περὶ δὲ ζωῆσ τὸν νεκρὸν ἀξιοῖ, περὶ δὲ ἐπικουρίασ τὸ ἀπειρότατον ἱκετεύει, περὶ δὲ ὁδοιπορίασ τὸ μηδὲ βάσει χρῆσθαι δυνάμενον, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:18)
  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν Χαλδαίων ἀτιμαζόντων αὐτά, οἵ, ὅταν ἴδωσιν ἐνεὸν μὴ δυνάμενον λαλῆσαι, προσενεγκάμενοι τὸν Βῆλον ἀξιοῦσι φωνῆσαι, ὡσ δυνατοῦ ὄντοσ αὐτοῦ αἰσθέσθαι, (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:41)
  • ἡ Ῥέα δὲ ‐ χρὴ γὰρ ἴσωσ καὶ ταῦτα εἰπεῖν ‐ πῶσ οὐκ ἀσχημονεῖ καὶ δεινὰ ποιεῖ, γραῦσ μὲν ἤδη καὶ ἔξωροσ οὖσα καὶ τοσούτων μήτηρ θεῶν, παιδεραστοῦσα δὲ ἔτι καὶ ζηλοτυποῦσα καὶ τὸν Ἄττιν ἐπὶ τῶν λεόντων περιφέρουσα, καὶ ταῦτα μηκέτι χρήσιμον εἶναι δυνάμενον; (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 7:2)
  • ἀρρενικῶν δὲ καὶ θηλυκῶν καὶ οὐδετέρων ἀντιμετατάξεισ ἐκβεβηκυῖαι τῶν συνήθων σχημάτων αἱ τοιαίδε εἰσίν, ὅταν τὴν μὲν ταραχὴν τάραχον καλῇ τὸ θηλυκὸν ἐκφέρων ἀρρενικῶσ καὶ τὴν ὄχλησιν ὄχλον, τὴν δὲ βούλησιν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τὸ βουλόμενον λέγῃ καὶ τὸ δυνάμενον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 101)

Synonyms

  1. to be able

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