can

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To know how to.

   She can speak English, French, and German.

2. 2
   verb

   To be able to.

   Can you remember your fifth birthday?

3. 3
   verb

   May; to be permitted or enabled to.

   You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework.

4. 4
   verb

   To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.

   Can it be Friday already?

5. 5
   verb

   Used to form requests, typically polite.

   Can you please come over here?

6. 6
   verb

   To know.

   ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood.

7. 7
   verb

   To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can

   Importance of Identifying Leaf: Identify Plants: If we can able to identify leaf, we can easily able to identify plants.

8. 8
   verb

   To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.

   Can anot?

Etymology

From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence also know). Doublet of con. See also: canny, cunning.