"able" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

able adjetivo

able + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 24

able man • able seaman • able people • able administrator • able student • ...

verbo + able

Kolokacji: 5

feel able • prove able • work able • become able • seem able

Kolokacji: 2

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) feel, prove, seem

Kolokacji: 3

1. feel able = poczuj się zdolny feel able

2. prove able = okaż się zdolny prove able

Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years.
You proved able to function effectively for most of a standard year.
It has proved well able to take care of itself.
In Africa, female prostitutes have proved quite able to transmit the disease.
However, the Government has proved less able to manage disbursements.
In that arena, however, he proved more than able to look after himself.
Close proved able to create his desired effects even with the most difficult of materials to control.
Yet four years later, not a single developing country has proved able to do this.
The only country that proved willing and able to help put out the flames was Nigeria.
The huge body proved able not only to move, but to change directions, with surprising speed.

3. seem able = wyglądaj na zdolny seem able

(2) work, become

Kolokacji: 2

adverbio + able

Kolokacji: 33

barely able • better able • longer able • hardly able • finally able • eventually able • most able • easily able • ...

able + preposición

Kolokacji: 23

able through • able into • able at • able by • able in • ...

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