"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

3. seem able = wyglądaj na zdolny seem able

Her mother swallowed hard, seeming barely able to speak.
He looked at Ish, seeming able to focus his eyes, and he smiled, rather pathetically.
"Aren't there also those who seem able to see through solid objects?"
And Amalie even now seemed able to comfort Evan.
About half of the women are deemed occasional drug users and seem able to care for the infant.
Morley's eyes were looking all around, not seeming able to decide on where to settle.
Olmec shook his head, hardly seeming able to credit his own ears.
They are now "ghost detectives", and seem able to possess people in a method similar to that of Deadman.
Why do I never seem able to choose the right one?
Yet for all his hard words to them he still seemed able to grovel to Harry.

(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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