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podía

A1Rank #435

I/he/she/it was able to (imperfect form of poder)

Part of speech
verb
Frequency rank
#435 of 5,000

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"podía" in example sentences

"podía" appears in 438 of 223,093 short Tatoeba Spanish sentences that have an English translation. Here are 3 of them.

Él no podía hacer lo que quería.

He was not able to do what he wanted.

Tatoeba #1292444

No había nada que ella podía haber hecho.

There was nothing she could have done.

Tatoeba #2256323

No podía salir de mi casa.

I wasn't able to leave my house.

Tatoeba #2096953

Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Words often found with "podía"

Each of these shares at least three of those Tatoeba sentences with "podía"; the number is how many.

soportar12apenas18decidir8pregunté9dormir20respirar5

Related words

poder - all tensesverb tablepoderbase formpuedopuedepuedespodríapodemospueden

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