translation question "povinta"
eric_vandenburg-tól, 2013. június 18.
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eric_vandenburg (Profil megtekintése) 2013. június 18. 6:39:34
can anyone help translate this bit of a sentence:
... mi ekhavis la ideon, ke mi estus povinta demandi ŝin, ĉu ...
it's the 'estus povinta' part that gets me, because I don't know if there is a past particple of 'can' in english. The best I can come up with is this:
... I got the idea, that I would have been able to ask her, do ....
any expert help would be apprecitated.
dankon!
... mi ekhavis la ideon, ke mi estus povinta demandi ŝin, ĉu ...
it's the 'estus povinta' part that gets me, because I don't know if there is a past particple of 'can' in english. The best I can come up with is this:
... I got the idea, that I would have been able to ask her, do ....
any expert help would be apprecitated.
dankon!
Chainy (Profil megtekintése) 2013. június 18. 7:44:47
eric_vandenburg:... mi ekhavis la ideon, ke mi estus povinta demandi ŝin, ĉu ...= The idea occured to me that I could have asked her whether...