Word
Podrás conectar el dispositivo.
Meaning
You will be able to connect the device.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Podrás conectar el dispositivo.
poder
to be able to / can
el dispositivo
device
conectar
to connect
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Questions & Answers about Podrás conectar el dispositivo.
Why is it podrás and not "poderás"?
Poder (to be able to / can) has an irregular stem in the future tense. Usually, you add future endings to the full infinitive verb. But for poder, you drop the "e" to get the stem podr-. Then, you add the standard tú future ending -ás, giving us podrás.
Why does this translate to "will be able to"?
The verb poder means "to be able to" or "can". In English, "can" doesn't have a future tense (we can't say "will can"). So, when we put poder in the future tense as podrás, we translate it to "you will be able to".
Why is conectar left in its infinitive form?
When two verbs go together to express a single idea, only the first verb is conjugated. Because podrás is already conjugated for tú (you), the second verb conectar (to connect) stays in its basic infinitive form.
What kind of "device" is a dispositivo?
While it can mean any mechanism, in everyday modern Spanish, dispositivo almost always refers to an electronic device, gadget, or piece of hardware like a phone, USB drive, or router.