Povi Eo Conj Mi I Speech Sixth Washington D.C

povi

Pronunciation

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• IPA
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
  (
  key
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
  ): /ˈpovi/
• Hyphenation: po‧vi
• Rhymes:
  -ovi

Verb

povi (present

1. (
   intransitive
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#intransitive
   ) to
   be able to
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be_able_to
   ;
   can
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/can
   • 1910,
     L. L. Zamenhof
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
     , speech at the sixth
     World Congress of Esperanto
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Esperanto
     in Washington, D.C.:

     Nur tre malmultaj el ni povis veni en vian landon, ĉar ni, esperantistoj, ne estas homoj riĉaj.

     Only very few of us could come to your country, because we, Esperantists, are not rich people.

   Mi povas piediri. ― I can walk.

   Synonym:

   kapabli
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kapabli#Esperanto

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