kunna — meaning in English
Swedish → English · translate English → Swedish instead
English meaning
- can verb To be able to do something, or to know how to do it.
- get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
- know verb To have information about something, or to be certain that something is true.
- may verb Used to say that something is possible or might happen.
- speak verb To say words out loud; to talk.
Senses
kunna is used for these senses in English:
- get (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- know (transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.
- may (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. [from 9th c.]
- speak (transitive, stative) To be able to communicate in a language.
can — full definition
- verb To be able to do something, or to know how to do it.
- verb Used to say something is allowed or permitted.
- noun A sealed metal container, especially for food or drink.
- verb To preserve food by sealing it in an airtight can or jar.
- verb Informally, to dismiss someone from a job, or to scrap a plan.
get — full definition
- verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
- verb To become, or to cause someone or something to become, a certain way (often with an adjective).
- verb To fetch or bring something.
- verb To arrive at or reach a place or state.
- verb To understand something.