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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

  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ τῶν φυγάδων βραχεῖά ἐστιν ἰσχὺσ καὶ οὔτε πολὺν ἀνθέξει χρόνον διαμένουσα, ὥσπερ νῦν, ὑπαίθριοσ ὑπὸ καλύβαισ ὡρ́ᾳ ἔτουσ χειμερίῳ, πορίζεσθαι δὲ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια οὐχ ὅπωσ δι’ ἁρπαγῆσ ἔτι δυνησομένη ἐπειδὰν τὰ ὄντα ἀναλώσῃ, ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ἂν ἄλλοθεν ὠνητὰ ἐπεισάγεσθαι διὰ πενίαν, οἷσ οὔτε ἰδίᾳ οὔτ’ ἐν κοινῷ χρήματά ἐστιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 62 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be able

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