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• Western: /əbəl/
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• Western: [əbl̩]
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• Western: [əbəl]
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• India, North: /ˈebl̩/ same as the word able
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• India, North: [eːbɐl] same as the word able
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• India, South: /əbl̩/
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• India, South, unstressed: [ɐbɨɭ]
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able Inherited from Middle English -able, borrowed from Old French -able, from Latin -ābilis, from -a- or -i- + -bilis (“capable or worthy of being acted upon”), from Proto-Indo-European i-stem form *-dhli- of *-dhlom (“instrumental suffix”). Not closely related etymologically, though currently related semantically, to able. Displaced native Old English -endlīc.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قابل لـ (qabil li-) — able to be done
• Arabic: قابل لـ (ʔabel le-) — able to be done
• Armenian: -ի — able to be done
• Asturian: -able — able to be done
• Catalan: -able — able to be done
• Catalan: -ible — able to be done
• Chinese Cantonese: -得 (-dak1) — able to be done
• Chinese Mandarin: 可- — able to be done
• Cornish: -adow — able to be done
• Czech: -elný — able to be done
• Danish: -bar — able to be done
• Dutch: -baar — able to be done
• Dutch: -abel — able to be done
• Esperanto: -ebla — able to be done
• Finnish: -tava — able to be done
• Finnish: -tävä — able to be done
• French: -able — able to be done
• French: -ible — able to be done
• Galician: -able — able to be done
• Galician: -ábel — able to be done
• Georgian: -ადი (-adi) — able to be done
• German: -bar — able to be done
• German: -abel — able to be done
• Hindi: योग्य (yogya) — able to be done
• Hungarian: -ható — able to be done
• Hungarian: -hető — able to be done
• Ido: -ebla — able to be done
• Indonesian: -abel — able to be done
• Interlingua: -abile — able to be done
• Interlingua: -ibile — able to be done
• Italian: -abile — able to be done
• Italian: -ibile — able to be done
• Italian: -evole — able to be done
• Japanese: -られる (-rareru) — able to be done
• Latin: -ābilis — able to be done
• Low German: -bor — able to be done
• Malay: -abel — able to be done
• Malayalam: -ആവുന്ന (-āvunna) — able to be done
• Middle English: -able — able to be done
• Norwegian Bokmål: -abel — able to be done
• Norwegian Bokmål: -bar — able to be done
• Old Saxon: -bar — able to be done
• Persian: -پذیر — able to be done
• Polish: -alny — able to be done
• Polish: -elny — able to be done
• Portuguese: -ável — able to be done
• Portuguese: -ível — able to be done
• Romanian: -bil — able to be done
• Russian: -я́емый (-jájemyj) — able to be done
• Russian: -а́емый (-ájemyj) — able to be done
• Russian: -и́мый (-ímyj) — able to be done
• Slovene: -ljiv — able to be done
• Spanish: -able — able to be done
• Spanish: -ible — able to be done
• Swedish: -bar — able to be done
• Swedish: -abel — able to be done
• Tamil: -கூடிய (-kūṭiya) — able to be done
• Thai: ได้ (dâai) — able to be done
• Turkish: -ebilir — able to be done
• Welsh: -adwy — able to be done
• Dutch: -baar — fit to be done
• Finnish: -kelpoinen — fit to be done
• Finnish: -tava — fit to be done
• Finnish: -tävä — fit to be done
• Japanese: -られる (-rareru) — fit to be done
• Manx: yn- — fit to be done
• Middle English: -able — fit to be done
• Norwegian Bokmål: -abel — fit to be done
• Portuguese: -ável — fit to be done
• Portuguese: -ível — fit to be done
• Swedish: -abel — fit to be done
• Tamil: -கூடிய (-kūṭiya) — fit to be done
• Finnish: -kas — relevant or suitable to, in accordance with
• Finnish: -käs — relevant or suitable to, in accordance with
• Norwegian Bokmål: -abel — relevant or suitable to, in accordance with
• Romanian: -bil — relevant or suitable to, in accordance with
• Swedish: -abel — relevant or suitable to, in accordance with
• Finnish: -tava — expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense
• Finnish: -tävä — expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense
• German: -wert — expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense
• Swedish: -värd — expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense
• Finnish: -tava — due to be
• Finnish: -tävä — due to be
• French: -able — due to be
• Norwegian Bokmål: -bar — due to be
• Swedish: -värd — due to be