enable

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To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to

• Her large income enables her to go to Paris every year.

  Ihr hohes Einkommen ermöglicht es ihr, jedes Jahr nach Paris zu fahren.

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• His position enabled him to do so.

  Seine Position ermöglichte ihm, so zu handeln.

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befähigen

To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for

befähigen

To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like

befähigen

To affirm; to make firm and strongselten

befähigen

To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behaviorselten

befähigen

To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulseselten

befähigen

To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device)selten