bisa

can, to be able — before another verb, see grammar/verb-chains.md

Where it comes from

Indonesian/Malay bisa

Group

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First taught

Lesson 17

In the published corpus

16 of the 1321 glossed sentence pairs use it. Only the sentences that carry an English translation are in the corpus, and it is the measure you can check for yourself.

Looked up in English as

can, to be able

More than one

bisa-bisa — the noun said twice, joined by a hyphen. Nothing is added and nothing inside the word changes, so nothing can become irregular. The rule.

Sentences that use it.

Every one written by hand and checked against the rules. Shortest first.

• Yu bisa otur.You can sit.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Yu bisa otur sini.You can sit here.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Yu saufa bisa kara.You will be able to read.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Ta no bisa lai.She cannot come.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Yu bisa studi katab.You can learn to write.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Anak no bisa lala.The child cannot sleep.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Kanis no bisa kara masal.A dog cannot read a story.lessons/lesson-22-doing-and-feeling
• Mi senti mi bisa kanta!I feel I can sing!lessons/lesson-25-doing-and-being
• Kita no bisa sema una telefon.We cannot speak with a telephone.texts/text-14-yamur-aur-ca
• Ta bisa sema aur ta bisa kara.She can speak and she can read.lessons/lesson-17-wanting-and-able
• Mi no bisa go skola porke mi bimar.I can't go to school because I'm sick.lessons/lesson-20-colours-and-health
• Agar yu bil des kalima, yu bisa sema.If you know ten words, you can speak.texts/text-3-lingua-ini

You can also put English in and get Amadunia out, or take the whole corpus as a file.

The rest of the shelf.

• amato love
• ambilto take
• andato walk
• becato sell
• berito give
• bilto know
• bukato open
• dengarto hear
• esperato wait
• fahamto understand
• fikirto think
• finisto finish

All 300 roots, or the source table.