できる

Kana: できる

can; to know how

Example sentence

妹はピアノができるようになりました。

いもうとはぴあのができるようになりました。

My little sister has become able to play the piano.

What できる means

できる (できる) is a Japanese word meaning “can; to know how”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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