potrafić
Meaning
- to know how, to be able to, can (to have enough skill, strength, means, or ability to do something)
- to be able to, can (to be designed for something)
- to be able to, can (to do something regularly, usually considered negative by the speaker)
- to be able to, can (to go to certain limits in one's behavior or to reach a certain state)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pot‧ra‧fić
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɔtˈra.fit͡ɕ/
Etymology
From po- + trafić. First attested in 1544. Compare Czech potrefit, Kashubian pòtrafic, Masurian potrasicz, Carpathian Rusyn потрафити (potrafyty), Silesian potrefić, Serbo-Croatian pòtrefiti/по̀трефити, and Slovak potrafiť.
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