TO BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING

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If you are able to do something, you have the necessary physical strength, mental power, skill, time, money, or opportunity to do it.

I wasn't able to work out what she was trying to say.

Can has a similar meaning and is more common than able to in speech and writing.

Can you make out what she is trying to say?

The opposite of and able is unable.

I was unable to get the lid off the jar.

You can say that a person or group is capable of something or is capable of doing something.

You are capable of a lot more than you think you are.I didn't think he was capable of doing that.

The opposite of being capable of (doing) something is being incapable of (doing) something.

He was incapable of putting a coherent sentence together.

If you know how to do something, you have learned how to do it.

"Do you know how to swim?" "Of course I know how to swim."

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