Translation
able to be done; -able
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Examples
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The mountain is visible from here.
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That is not a believable story.
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Is the thing possible?
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He made an impossible promise.
a.
The water in the river is drinkable.
-- hangs on a transitive verb root and gives you an adjective in -a: gives , gives , gives a, gives a. itself stands alone as the adjective for possible, and is the everyday word for perhaps.
The nuance worth holding on to is that -- is passive. A a is a book that can be read, not a book that reads; the root's action is done to the thing, never by it. That is why it wants a transitive root and sits awkwardly on or .
It heads a family of three. -- says it can be done, -- says it is worth doing, -end- says it must be done. Same slot, rising pressure.
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