could

Speech parts

1. could - Noun

2. could - Verb

of Can

Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Meuse may will can even might able allow likely also ability authority going capable draw

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canna must impossibility I can't Cannae failed

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God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. John Chrysostom

We should try to live in such way that if the Gospels were lost, they could be re-written by looking at us. Anthony of Sourozh

If people's hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world. Nikola Tesla

One idiot threw a stone in the well, thousand wise people could not get it out. Armenian Proverb

If the young only knew; if the old only could. French Proverb

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Jewish Proverb