δύνασαι (dynasai)

δύνασαι is an Ancient Greek form of δύναμαι, meaning “to be able, can”. It is the 2nd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 161 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.8.76: … εἰσελθόντος πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ θεασαμένου γυναῖκάς τε καὶ πολυτελῆ ὀψωνίαν, ἔπειτα αἰτιασαμένου, μικρὸν διαλιπών, δύνασαι, ἔφη, καὶ σὺ σήμερον μεθʼ ἡμῶν γενέσθαι;

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 23: … ἔφυ. μᾶλλον οὖν κἀκεῖνον ἀποτρέψει τῶν μὴ προσηκόντων· ἂν δὲ μὴ πείθῃ, καλὸν τὸ Φωκίωνος πρὸς Ἀντίπατρον, οὐ δύνασαί μοι καὶ φίλῳ χρῆσθαι καὶ κόλακι, τουτέστι καὶ φίλῳ καὶ μὴ φίλῳ. συνεργεῖν γὰρ δεῖ τῷ φίλῳ μὴ συμπανουργεῖν, κ …

Clement of Alexandria, Quis Dis Salvetur 24: Δύνασαι καὶ τῶν χρημάτων ἐπίπροσθεν εἶναι; φράσον καὶ οὐκ ἀπάγει σε Χριστὸς τῆς κτήσεως, ὁ κύριος οὐ φθονεῖ. ἀλλ’ ὁρᾷ …

All forms of δύναμαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.