See können in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”)", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle High German künnen, kunnen, from Old High German kunnan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).", "forms": [ { "form": "kann", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "konnte", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "gekonnt", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "können", "raw_tags": [ "as an auxiliary verb" ], "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "könnte", "tags": [ "past", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "haben", "tags": [ "auxiliary" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "de-conj", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "auxiliary" ] }, { "form": "können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "infinitive" ] }, { "form": "könnend", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "kann", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "present", "singular" ] }, { "form": "können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "plural", "present" ] }, { "form": "könne", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "kannst", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "present", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "könnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "plural", "present", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "könnest", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, 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"plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "konntest", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "preterite", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "konntet", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "plural", "preterite", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "könntest", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "könntet", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "konnte", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "preterite", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "konnten", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "plural", "preterite", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "könnte", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "könnten", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "-", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "imperative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "-", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "imperative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "de-conj", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "auxiliary" ] }, { "form": "habe gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular" ] }, { "form": "habe können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular" ] }, { "form": "haben gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural" ] }, { "form": "haben können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural" ] }, { "form": "habe gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "habe können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "haben gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "haben können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hast gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "hast können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "habt gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "habt können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "habest gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "habest können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "habet gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "habet können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hat gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hat können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "haben gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "haben können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "habe gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "habe können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "singular", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "haben gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "haben können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "perfect", "plural", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hatte gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular" ] }, { "form": "hatte können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular" ] }, { "form": "hatten gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural" ] }, { "form": "hatten können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural" ] }, { "form": "hätte gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hätte können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hätten gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hätten können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hattest gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "hattest können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "hattet gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "hattet können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "hättest gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hättest können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hättet gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hättet können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive" ] }, { "form": "hatte gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hatte können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hatten gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hatten können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "indicative", "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hätte gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hätte können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "singular", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hätten gekonnt", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "hätten können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "multiword-construction", "pluperfect", "plural", "subjunctive", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "können werden", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "infinitive", "multiword-construction" ] }, { "form": "werde können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werden können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werdest können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werdet können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werde können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werden können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werde können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-i", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "singular" ] }, { "form": "werden können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-i", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural" ] }, { "form": "würde können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würden können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "wirst können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "werdet können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "würdest können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würdet können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "wird können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werden können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würde können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würden können", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-i", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "gekonnt haben werden", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "infinitive", "multiword-construction" ] }, { "form": "können haben werden", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "infinitive", "multiword-construction" ] }, { "form": "werde gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werde können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werdest gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werdest können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werdet gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werdet können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i" ] }, { "form": "werde gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werde können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-i", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werde gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "singular" ] }, { "form": "werde können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "singular" ] }, { "form": "werden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural" ] }, { "form": "werden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural" ] }, { "form": "würde gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würde können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "first-person", "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "wirst gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "wirst können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "werdet gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "werdet können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "würdest gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würdest können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "second-person", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würdet gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "würdet können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "second-person", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii" ] }, { "form": "wird gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "wird können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "werden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würde gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würde können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "können<pretpres.kann#konnte,gekonnt:könnenas an auxiliary verb,könnte>" }, "expansion": "können (preterite-present, third-person singular present kann, past tense konnte, past participle gekonnt or (as an auxiliary verb) können, past subjunctive könnte, auxiliary haben)", "name": "de-verb" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "können<pretpres.kann#konnte,gekonnt:könnenas an auxiliary verb,könnte>" }, "name": "de-conj" } ], "lang": "German", "lang_code": "de", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "english": "Are you able to help him?", "text": "Kannst du ihm helfen?", "type": "example" }, { "english": "I could have done that.", "text": "Ich hätte das machen können.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "This may be and may also not be.", "text": "Das kann sein, kann aber auch nicht sein.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "This is nothing that could possibly exist.", "text": "Das kann es nicht geben.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "And other (gain), which ye have not been able to achieve, Allah will compass it, Allah is Able to do all things. (Pickthall)", "ref": "1840, Ludwig Ullmann, Der Koran, Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, published from 1872, 48:21, page 444:", "text": "وَأُخْرَىٰ لَمْ تَقْدِرُوا۟ عَلَيْهَا قَدْ أَحَاطَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا ۚ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرًا\nAuch noch andere Beute ist euch versprochen, die ihr noch nicht machen gekonnt, die aber Gott für euch bereit hält; denn Gott ist aller Dinge mächtig.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can." ], "id": "en-können-de-verb-ncPskCJC", "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "können", "können" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle: “können” or “gekonnt”)" ], "raw_tags": [ "with an infinitive" ], "tags": [ "auxiliary", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "english": "No, I can’t.", "text": "Nein, ich kann nicht.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "He was able to [do it].", "text": "Er hat gekonnt.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be able to do something implied; can." ], "id": "en-können-de-verb-bVqDCbHz", "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ], [ "be able to", "be able to" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(intransitive, past participle: “gekonnt”) to be able to do something implied; can." ], "tags": [ "intransitive", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "4 4 43 5 4 42", "kind": "other", "name": "German entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "15 15 22 18 15 16", "kind": "other", "name": "German verbs using haben as auxiliary", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "4 4 40 5 4 42", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "3 3 42 5 3 44", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "english": "I know German and English.", "text": "Ich kann Deutsch und Englisch.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "Can you do it?", "text": "Kannst du es?", "type": "example" }, { "english": "I couldn’t have done that. / I wouldn’t have been capable of that.", "text": "Das hätte ich nicht gekonnt.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to know how to do (something); to know; to understand; to be able to do (something); to be capable of; can do (something), to have a specific skill. (which is notably unlike in English where another verb is needed for a main verb)" ], "id": "en-können-de-verb-PaHAf967", "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ], [ "know", "know" ], [ "understand", "understand" ], [ "capable", "capable" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(transitive, past participle: “gekonnt”) to know how to do (something); to know; to understand; to be able to do (something); to be capable of; can do (something), to have a specific skill. (which is notably unlike in English where another verb is needed for a main verb)" ], "tags": [ "participle", "past", "preterite-present", "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Nächstes Jahr is’n Schaltjahr. – Das kann nich’. Letztes Jahr war doch Schaltjahr!\nNext year is a leap year. – That’s not possible. Last year was a leap year!", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be possible, to make sense" ], "id": "en-können-de-verb-wsS9O~qr", "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "possible", "possible" ], [ "make sense", "make sense" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(intransitive, colloquial, usually in negation) to be possible, to make sense" ], "tags": [ "colloquial", "intransitive", "negative", "preterite-present", "regional" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "english": "May I come along?", "text": "Kann ich mitkommen?", "type": "example" }, { "english": "He was not allowed to go to the cinema.", "text": "Er hat nicht ins Kino gehen können.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may." ], "id": "en-können-de-verb-riw9u1Fg", "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "können", "können" ], [ "allowed", "allowed" ], [ "permitted", "permitted" ], [ "may", "may" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle: “können”, informal) to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may." ], "raw_tags": [ "with an infinitive" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "dürfen" } ], "tags": [ "auxiliary", "informal", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "de", "name": "Law", "orig": "de:Law", "parents": [ "Justice", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "4 4 43 5 4 42", "kind": "other", "name": "German entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "4 4 40 5 4 42", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "3 3 42 5 3 44", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "Coordinate term: dürfen" }, { "english": "Pursuant to § 1163 II BGB the in rem right entered into the land register as hypothec belives with the owner until the deed is tradited; this is true even if the secured claim has already arisen in the person of the creditor, and the alliance of claim and hypothec is thus possible. But § 1163 II BGB provides that this alliance is not realized yet. Then again the owner has the in rem right, but without obligatory claim though it be that it possibly already belives with the creditor; pursuant to § 1177 I BGB the owner therefore has a Grundschuld [a non-accessory lien on pieces of land in German civil law].\nWith this legal position the owner can effectively proceed as lists him, even if toward the creditor he be obliged to hand him the deed and thus provide the in rem right to him, when the claim is already there.", "ref": "2021 September 3, Jörg Maurer, “Die »forderungsentkleidete« Hypothek ist eine Grundschuld”, in JURA – Juristische Ausbildung, volume 43, number 4, →DOI, pages 371b–372a of 369–377:", "text": "Nach § 1163 II BGB steht das im Grundbuch als »Hypothek« eingetragene dingliche Recht bis zur Übergabe des Hypothekenbriefs (noch) dem Eigentümer zu; dies gilt selbst dann, wenn die zu sichernde Forderung bereits beim Gläubiger entstanden ist, der Verbund zwischen Forderung und Hypothek mithin möglich wäre. § 1163 II BGB bestimmt aber, dass dieser Verbund noch nicht hergestellt ist. Wiederum hat der Eigentümer das dingliche Recht, allerdings ohne schuldrechtliche Forderung, die möglicherweise bereits dem Gläubiger zusteht; nach § 1177 I BGB steht dem Eigentümer deshalb eine Grundschuld zu.\nMit dieser Rechtsposition kann der Eigentümer nach Belieben verfahren, mag er auch gegenüber dem Gläubiger verpflichtet sein, ihm den Hypothekenbrief auszuhändigen und ihm dadurch das dingliche Recht zu verschaffen, wenn die Forderung bereits besteht.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be in the legal situation of being able to realize a legal effect even if it be legally disallowed" ], "id": "en-können-de-verb-ALjGIuUv", "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "können", "können" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ], [ "law", "law#English" ], [ "rechtlich", "rechtlich" ], [ "realize", "realize" ], [ "legal effect", "legal effect" ], [ "disallowed", "disallowed" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle: “können” or “gekonnt”, law, the so-called rechtliches Können) to be in the legal situation of being able to realize a legal effect even if it be legally disallowed" ], "raw_tags": [ "with an infinitive" ], "tags": [ "auxiliary", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ], "topics": [ "law" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkœnən/" }, { "ipa": "[ˈkœnən]" }, { "ipa": "[ˈkœnn̩]" }, { "audio": "De-können.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/De-k%C3%B6nnen.ogg/De-k%C3%B6nnen.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/De-k%C3%B6nnen.ogg" }, { "audio": "De-können2.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/De-k%C3%B6nnen2.ogg/De-k%C3%B6nnen2.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/De-k%C3%B6nnen2.ogg" } ], "word": "können" }
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"source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "indicative", "multiword-construction", "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würde gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würde können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "singular", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würden gekonnt haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "würden können haben", "source": "conjugation", "tags": [ "future", "future-ii", "multiword-construction", "plural", "subjunctive", "subjunctive-ii", "third-person" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "können<pretpres.kann#konnte,gekonnt:könnenas an auxiliary verb,könnte>" }, "expansion": "können (preterite-present, third-person singular present kann, past tense konnte, past participle gekonnt or (as an auxiliary verb) können, past subjunctive könnte, auxiliary haben)", "name": "de-verb" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "können<pretpres.kann#konnte,gekonnt:könnenas an auxiliary verb,könnte>" }, "name": "de-conj" } ], "lang": "German", "lang_code": "de", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "German auxiliary verbs", "German terms with quotations", "German terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "english": "Are you able to help him?", "text": "Kannst du ihm helfen?", "type": "example" }, { "english": "I could have done that.", "text": "Ich hätte das machen können.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "This may be and may also not be.", "text": "Das kann sein, kann aber auch nicht sein.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "This is nothing that could possibly exist.", "text": "Das kann es nicht geben.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "And other (gain), which ye have not been able to achieve, Allah will compass it, Allah is Able to do all things. (Pickthall)", "ref": "1840, Ludwig Ullmann, Der Koran, Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing, published from 1872, 48:21, page 444:", "text": "وَأُخْرَىٰ لَمْ تَقْدِرُوا۟ عَلَيْهَا قَدْ أَحَاطَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَا ۚ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرًا\nAuch noch andere Beute ist euch versprochen, die ihr noch nicht machen gekonnt, die aber Gott für euch bereit hält; denn Gott ist aller Dinge mächtig.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can." ], "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "können", "können" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle: “können” or “gekonnt”)" ], "raw_tags": [ "with an infinitive" ], "tags": [ "auxiliary", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ] }, { "categories": [ "German intransitive verbs", "German terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "english": "No, I can’t.", "text": "Nein, ich kann nicht.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "He was able to [do it].", "text": "Er hat gekonnt.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be able to do something implied; can." ], "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ], [ "be able to", "be able to" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(intransitive, past participle: “gekonnt”) to be able to do something implied; can." ], "tags": [ "intransitive", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ] }, { "categories": [ "German terms with usage examples", "German transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "english": "I know German and English.", "text": "Ich kann Deutsch und Englisch.", "type": "example" }, { "english": "Can you do it?", "text": "Kannst du es?", "type": "example" }, { "english": "I couldn’t have done that. / I wouldn’t have been capable of that.", "text": "Das hätte ich nicht gekonnt.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to know how to do (something); to know; to understand; to be able to do (something); to be capable of; can do (something), to have a specific skill. 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Last year was a leap year!", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be possible, to make sense" ], "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "possible", "possible" ], [ "make sense", "make sense" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(intransitive, colloquial, usually in negation) to be possible, to make sense" ], "tags": [ "colloquial", "intransitive", "negative", "preterite-present", "regional" ] }, { "categories": [ "German auxiliary verbs", "German informal terms", "German terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "english": "May I come along?", "text": "Kann ich mitkommen?", "type": "example" }, { "english": "He was not allowed to go to the cinema.", "text": "Er hat nicht ins Kino gehen können.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may." ], "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "können", "können" ], [ "allowed", "allowed" ], [ "permitted", "permitted" ], [ "may", "may" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle: “können”, informal) to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may." ], "raw_tags": [ "with an infinitive" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "dürfen" } ], "tags": [ "auxiliary", "informal", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ] }, { "categories": [ "German auxiliary verbs", "German contranyms", "German terms with quotations", "de:Law" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Coordinate term: dürfen" }, { "english": "Pursuant to § 1163 II BGB the in rem right entered into the land register as hypothec belives with the owner until the deed is tradited; this is true even if the secured claim has already arisen in the person of the creditor, and the alliance of claim and hypothec is thus possible. But § 1163 II BGB provides that this alliance is not realized yet. Then again the owner has the in rem right, but without obligatory claim though it be that it possibly already belives with the creditor; pursuant to § 1177 I BGB the owner therefore has a Grundschuld [a non-accessory lien on pieces of land in German civil law].\nWith this legal position the owner can effectively proceed as lists him, even if toward the creditor he be obliged to hand him the deed and thus provide the in rem right to him, when the claim is already there.", "ref": "2021 September 3, Jörg Maurer, “Die »forderungsentkleidete« Hypothek ist eine Grundschuld”, in JURA – Juristische Ausbildung, volume 43, number 4, →DOI, pages 371b–372a of 369–377:", "text": "Nach § 1163 II BGB steht das im Grundbuch als »Hypothek« eingetragene dingliche Recht bis zur Übergabe des Hypothekenbriefs (noch) dem Eigentümer zu; dies gilt selbst dann, wenn die zu sichernde Forderung bereits beim Gläubiger entstanden ist, der Verbund zwischen Forderung und Hypothek mithin möglich wäre. § 1163 II BGB bestimmt aber, dass dieser Verbund noch nicht hergestellt ist. Wiederum hat der Eigentümer das dingliche Recht, allerdings ohne schuldrechtliche Forderung, die möglicherweise bereits dem Gläubiger zusteht; nach § 1177 I BGB steht dem Eigentümer deshalb eine Grundschuld zu.\nMit dieser Rechtsposition kann der Eigentümer nach Belieben verfahren, mag er auch gegenüber dem Gläubiger verpflichtet sein, ihm den Hypothekenbrief auszuhändigen und ihm dadurch das dingliche Recht zu verschaffen, wenn die Forderung bereits besteht.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "to be in the legal situation of being able to realize a legal effect even if it be legally disallowed" ], "links": [ [ "be able", "be able to" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "can", "can" ], [ "können", "können" ], [ "gekonnt", "gekonnt" ], [ "law", "law#English" ], [ "rechtlich", "rechtlich" ], [ "realize", "realize" ], [ "legal effect", "legal effect" ], [ "disallowed", "disallowed" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.", "(auxiliary, with an infinitive, past participle: “können” or “gekonnt”, law, the so-called rechtliches Können) to be in the legal situation of being able to realize a legal effect even if it be legally disallowed" ], "raw_tags": [ "with an infinitive" ], "tags": [ "auxiliary", "participle", "past", "preterite-present" ], "topics": [ "law" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈkœnən/" }, { "ipa": "[ˈkœnən]" }, { "ipa": "[ˈkœnn̩]" }, { "audio": "De-können.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/De-k%C3%B6nnen.ogg/De-k%C3%B6nnen.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/De-k%C3%B6nnen.ogg" }, { "audio": "De-können2.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/De-k%C3%B6nnen2.ogg/De-k%C3%B6nnen2.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/De-k%C3%B6nnen2.ogg" } ], "word": "können" }
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