英和和英

読み方 できる

自動詞

To be all out

• 自動車は出切ってありません
  The motor-cars are all out
  There are none left.

読み方 できる

形容詞相当語句

Possible, practicable, feasible （thing）

読み方 できる

自動詞

1

（＝何ができる）can （do something）; to be able （to do something）; to be in a position （to do something）; to manage （to do something）; to be good for （something）; to be equal to （the task）

用例

• 彼は英文を読むことはできるが英語を話すことはできぬ
  He can read English, but he can not speak it
  He is able to read English, but unable to speak it.

• 僕はできるなら助けてあげるのだが
  I would help you if I could―if I had the power.
• 僕はできるなら洋行したいのだが
  I would go abroad if I could.
• 僕は洋行ならいつでもできる
  I could go abroad if I would.
• 君にそんなことがどうしてできるか
  How do you manage to do it?
• どうにかこうにかできる
  I manage to do it （somehow）.
• 僕にできるかも知れぬ
  I may be able to do it.
• 一所懸命にやったらできないことはあるまい
  I might be able to do it if I did my utmost.
• 君にできないことが僕にできる道理があるか
  If you can not do it, how can I be able?
• 遺憾ながらご依頼に応ずることはできません
  I regret to say that I am not in a position to comply with your request.
• 彼は金があるから何でもできる
  He is rich, so he can do anything―（他動詞構文にすれば）―His wealth enables him to do anything.
• 君は若いから働くことができる
  As you are young, you can work―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Your youth enables you to work.
• 彼は老人だから働くことができぬ
  As he is old, he can not work―（他動詞構文にすれば）―His old age disables him from working―prevents him from working.
• 僕は病気で来ることができなかった
  I could not come on account of illness―（他動詞構文にすれば）―Illness prevented me from coming―prevented my coming―prevented me coming.
• 朝は来ることができなかったが晩なら来ることができたのだ
  I could not come in the morning, but I could have come in the evening.
• 彼の名を思い出すことがどうしてもできない
  I can not, for the life of me, recollect his name.
• どうしてもできない
  To do my utmost, I can not do it
  I can not do it for the life of me
  I can not do it to save my life.
• どうしても僕の意を通ずることができなかった
  To do my utmost, I could not make myself understood.
• この病人を治すことはとうていできぬ
  They can not possibly cure the invalid.
• もしや治すことができるなら金はいくらかかってもかまわぬ
  If they can possibly cure him, I do not mind the expense.
• あの人は何ができるか
  What is he good for?
• 何かできるだろう
  He must be good for something.
• 何もできない
  He is good for nothing.
• 何でもできる
  He is good for anything―equal to anything.
• （病人に向かって）行くことができそうかね
  Do you feel equal to the journey?

2

（＝このことができる）can （be done）; to be capable of （being done）; to be possible; to be practicable; to be feasible

用例

• 金は曲げることができる
  A metal can be bent
  A metal is capable of being bent.

• そんなことはできない
  That is not to be done―impossible―impracticable.
• この情ばかりは制することができない
  It is impossible to control this passion
  This passion is impossible of control.
• できるなら
  if possible―if one can―（打消に伴えば）―if one can help it
• できるならそうしよう
  I will do so, if possible.
• できるなら借金はしない
  I will not borrow money, if I can help it.
• とうていできぬ
  It is quite impossible―no go.
• 返事は延引することができぬ
  The answer can not be delayed―admits of no delay.
• その議論には答弁ができぬ
  The argument can not be answered―permits of no answer.
• この規則は変更ができぬ
  The rule can not be altered―allows of no alteration.

3

（＝いつできる）to be done; to be finished; to be completed; to be ready

用例

• 仕事はできたか
  Is your work done?
  Is your work ready?

• いつできるか
  When will it be done?
• 明日までにできます
  It will be done by tomorrow.
• 仕事ができています
  My work is ready
  I have my work ready
  I am ready with my work.
• 誂えた靴ができたか
  Are my shoes ready?
• 明後日までにできます
  They will be ready by the day after tomorrow.
• 答案ができたら出してよろしい
  You may hand in your papers if they are finished.
• ご飯ができました
  Dinner is ready―（召使いが言えば）―Dinner is served.

4

（＝何ができる） to be made; to be manufactured; to be produced; to be built; to be raised; to be grown

用例

• 紙で色々の物ができる
  Various things are made of paper
  Paper is made into various things.

• 日本で戦闘艦ができるようになった
  Battle-ships are now built in Japan
  The Japanese have fallen into the way of building their own battle-ships.
• ドイツで日本品ができる
  Japanese goods are manufactured in Germany.
• 麦酒はいつから日本でできるようになったか
  When was the first beer brewed in Japan?
• 米国で米ができるようになった
  Rice is now raised in America―grown in America.

5

用例

• ちゃんとできている
  It is all ready―（洋服や靴などなら）―ready-made―（家なら）―ready-built―（食物なら）―ready-cooked―（荷造りなら）―ready-packed―（口上なら）―cut and dried

• あの人は教師向きにできている
  He is made for a teacher―cut out for a teacher.

6

（＝今は無いが追々できる）there will be

用例

• ここに公園ができます
  There will be a park here.

• じきにあきができます
  There will be vacancy very soon.

7

用例

• 問題ができる
  I can solve the problem.

• この問題は誰もできない
  No one can solve this problem.
• 問題がやっとできた
  I have solved the problem at last―succeeded in solving the problem.

8

用例

• 英語ができる
  He knows English
  He is an English scholar.

• あの人は英語がよくできる
  He is proficient in English.
• あの人は学校中で一番に英語ができる
  He is the best English scholar in the whole school.
• 日本で一番に英語のできる人は誰か
  Who is the best English scholar in Japan?
• あの人は英仏独語ができる
  He knows English, French, and German.

9

用例

• 学問ができる
  He is a good scholar.

• 今度の先生はちっとはできるか
  Is the new man anything of a scholar?
• ちっとはできそうだ
  He seems to be something of a scholar.
• ちょいと学問ができる
  He is a bit of a scholar.
• なかなかできる
  He is very much of a scholar―a great deal of a scholar.
• たいしてはできない
  He is not much of a scholar―not much of a one.
• ちっともできない
  He is nothing of a scholar―no scholar （at all）.
• あの生徒はできる
  He is a good student.
• 英語がよくできる
  He is a good English scholar.
• 数学がよくできる
  He is a good mathematician.
• あの人は器用で何でもできる
  He can turn his hand to anything
  He is a versatile genius.

10

用例

• 金ができる
  One can raise the money―can find the means.

• 今日中に五百円できるか
  Can you raise 500 yen in the course of the day?
• 金ができないから洋行を止めた
  As I can not find the means, I have given up the idea of going abroad.
• あの人はだいぶ金ができた
  He has become rich―made a fortune.
• 金ができたから遊んで暮らせる
  As he has grown rich, he need not work―（他動詞構文にすれば）―His wealth has raised him above the necessity of working.

11

用例

• 子ができる
  A child is born.

• あの女は子ができた
  She has a child.
• 二人の間に子ができた
  They had a child between them
  A child was born to them.
• 二人の間にできた子が有名な誰某
  The fruit of their union was the famous So-and-so.
• あの娘は男ができた
  She has a lover.

12

用例

• 腫物ができる
  A tumour forms―appears―makes its appearance―on some part of the body.

• すねに根太ができた
  I have a boil on my leg.

13

用例

• 試験はよくできたね
  You have done well at the examination.

• 英語はよくできました
  I have done well in English.
• しかし数学はよくできませんでした
  But I have done badly in mathematics.