"povi" meaning in Esperanto

See povi in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [ˈpovi]
Rhymes: -ovi Etymology: Borrowed from French pouvoir, Etymology templates: {{bor+|eo|fr|pouvoir}} Borrowed from French pouvoir Head templates: {{eo-head}} povi (present povas, past povis, future povos, conditional povus, volitive povu) Inflection templates: {{eo-conj|intr=yes}} Forms: povas [present], povis [past], povos [future], povus [conditional], povu [volitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], povas [present], povis [past], povos [future], povanta [active, participle, present, singular], povantaj [active, participle, plural, present], povinta [active, participle, past, singular], povintaj [active, participle, past, plural], povonta [active, future, participle, singular], povontaj [active, future, participle, plural], povantan [accusative, active, participle, present, singular], povantajn [accusative, active, participle, plural, present], povintan [accusative, active, participle, past, singular], povintajn [accusative, active, participle, past, plural], povontan [accusative, active, future, participle, singular], povontajn [accusative, active, future, participle, plural], povanto [active, noun-from-verb, participle, present, singular], povantoj [active, noun-from-verb, participle, plural, present], povinto [active, noun-from-verb, participle, past, singular], povintoj [active, noun-from-verb, participle, past, plural], povonto [active, future, noun-from-verb, participle, singular], povontoj [active, future, noun-from-verb, participle, plural], povanton [accusative, active, noun-from-verb, participle, present, singular], povantojn [accusative, active, noun-from-verb, participle, plural, present], povinton [accusative, active, noun-from-verb, participle, past, singular], povintojn [accusative, active, noun-from-verb, participle, past, plural], povonton [accusative, active, future, noun-from-verb, participle, singular], povontojn [accusative, active, future, noun-from-verb, participle, plural], povante [active, adverbial, participle, present], povinte [active, adverbial, participle, past], povonte [active, adverbial, future, participle], povi [infinitive, plural, present], povu [imperative, past, plural], povus [conditional, future, plural]
  1. (intransitive) to be able to; can Tags: intransitive Synonyms: kapabli Derived forms: pova, povo, povoscii
    Sense id: en-povi-eo-verb-I8rx1LVJ Categories (other): Esperanto BRO2, Esperanto entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eo",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "pouvoir"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French pouvoir",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French pouvoir,",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "povas",
      "tags": [
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povis",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povos",
      "tags": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povus",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povu",
      "tags": [
        "volitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eo-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povis",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povos",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povanta",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantaj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinta",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintaj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonta",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontaj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantajn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintajn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontajn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povanto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantoj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintoj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontoj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povanton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantojn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintojn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontojn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povante",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "adverbial",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "adverbial",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "adverbial",
        "future",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povus",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "future",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "povi (present povas, past povis, future povos, conditional povus, volitive povu)",
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "po‧vi"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "intr": "yes"
      },
      "name": "eo-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Esperanto",
  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Esperanto BRO2",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "pova"
        },
        {
          "word": "povo"
        },
        {
          "word": "povoscii"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Only very few of us could come to your country, because we, Esperantists, are not rich people.",
          "roman": "Nur tre malmultaj el ni povis veni en vian landon, ĉar ni, esperantistoj, ne estas homoj riĉaj.",
          "text": "1910, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the sixth World Congress of Esperanto in Washington, D.C.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "I can walk.",
          "text": "Mi povas piediri.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be able to; can"
      ],
      "id": "en-povi-eo-verb-I8rx1LVJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "be able to",
          "be able to"
        ],
        [
          "can",
          "can"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to be able to; can"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kapabli"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpovi]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ovi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "povi"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pova"
    },
    {
      "word": "povo"
    },
    {
      "word": "povoscii"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "fr",
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      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French pouvoir",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French pouvoir,",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "povas",
      "tags": [
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povis",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povos",
      "tags": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povus",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povu",
      "tags": [
        "volitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eo-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povas",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povis",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povos",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povanta",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantaj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinta",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintaj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonta",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontaj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantajn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintajn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontan",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontajn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povanto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantoj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintoj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonto",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontoj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povanton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povantojn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povintojn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonton",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povontojn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "active",
        "future",
        "noun-from-verb",
        "participle",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povante",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "adverbial",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povinte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "adverbial",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povonte",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "active",
        "adverbial",
        "future",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "povus",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "future",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "povi (present povas, past povis, future povos, conditional povus, volitive povu)",
      "name": "eo-head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "po‧vi"
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "intr": "yes"
      },
      "name": "eo-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Esperanto",
  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Esperanto BRO2",
        "Esperanto entries with incorrect language header",
        "Esperanto intransitive verbs",
        "Esperanto lemmas",
        "Esperanto modal verbs",
        "Esperanto terms borrowed from French",
        "Esperanto terms derived from French",
        "Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation",
        "Esperanto terms with quotations",
        "Esperanto terms with usage examples",
        "Esperanto verbs",
        "Pages with 7 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Esperanto/ovi"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Only very few of us could come to your country, because we, Esperantists, are not rich people.",
          "roman": "Nur tre malmultaj el ni povis veni en vian landon, ĉar ni, esperantistoj, ne estas homoj riĉaj.",
          "text": "1910, L. L. Zamenhof, speech at the sixth World Congress of Esperanto in Washington, D.C.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "I can walk.",
          "text": "Mi povas piediri.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be able to; can"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "be able to",
          "be able to"
        ],
        [
          "can",
          "can"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to be able to; can"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kapabli"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpovi]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ovi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "povi"
}

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{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </div>",
  "path": [
    "povi"
  ],
  "section": "Esperanto",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "povi",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "inflection/20250113a",
  "msg": "Colspan 999 over 30, set to 1",
  "path": [
    "povi"
  ],
  "section": "Esperanto",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "povi",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Esperanto dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.