translation question "povinta"
de eric_vandenburg, 18 de juny de 2013
Missatges: 2
Llengua: English
eric_vandenburg (Mostra el perfil) 18 de juny de 2013 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 (Mostra el perfil) 18 de juny de 2013 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...