δύναται (dynatai)

δύναται is an Ancient Greek form of δύναμαι, meaning “to be able, can”. It is the 3rd person singular present middle/passive indicative.

Found 1,009 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.602: οἰωνὸς δύναται βαλέειν ὕπερ· ἀλλὰ μεσηγὺς

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.60.2: … αὶ τοῖς ἀσθενοῦσιν ἱκανὸν γενέσθαι, τοῦτο μὲν φρουρεῖν, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἄλλου πεζοῦ τὰς ναῦς ἁπάσας, ὅσαι ἦσαν καὶ δυναταὶ καὶ ἀπλοώτεραι, πάντα τινὰ ἐσβιβάζοντες πληρῶσαι, καὶ διαναυμαχήσαντες, ἢν μὲν νικῶσιν, ἐς Κατάνην κομίζεσθαι …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.31: … σα γάρ, φησίν, αἴσθησις ἄλογός ἐστι καὶ μνήμης οὐδεμιᾶς δεκτική· οὔτε γὰρ ὑφʼ αὑτῆς οὔτε ὑφʼ ἑτέρου κινηθεῖσα δύναταί τι προσθεῖναι ἢ ἀφελεῖν· οὐδὲ ἔστι τὸ δυνάμενον αὐτὰς διελέγξαι.

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.