Que signifie able en anglais?

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able Signification, définition

0 to have the ability to -- pouvoir
- Would you be able to help? Pourrais-tu donner un coup de main ?
1 intelligent and skilled -- doué/-ée
- a very able student un étudiant très doué
2 used to say that you can do a particular action to something -- -able, -ible
- a foldable chair
- taxable income
3 (opposite unable) having enough strength, knowledge etc to do something -- capable
- She was eventually able to open the door.
4 clever and skilful; capable -- compétent
- She is a very able nurse with many years’ experience.
5 legally competent -- capable
- He is old enough to be able to vote.

In such a specific and uncertain field, we must be able to bet on the future.
For this reason, we must also be able to implement some difficult reforms at the same time as enlargement.
Let us finally opt for a modern railway, worthy of the twenty-first century, which is able to compete effectively with other modes of transport.
I am glad to say that the courts in my country are independent and still able to mete out justice, even if it is posthumous.
It seems questionable to me whether it will be able to effectively play its part as guardian of the pact.
He said that the survivor is not the strongest, but the one most able to adapt.
I hope that the new coalition will be able to muster all its forces in order to maintain public safety on a lasting basis.
Rain has been on the increase due to global warming, the deforested soil is no longer able to retain the water and the river beds have become too narrow.