afford

Etymology
From, , , from earlier , , , from , , from , from , equivalent to en. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious;  to be able or rich enough.
 * 2)  To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting or expending, with profit, or without too great a loss.
 * 3) (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
 * 4) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
 * 1)  To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting or expending, with profit, or without too great a loss.
 * 2) (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
 * 3) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
 * 1) (rare) To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
 * 2) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
 * 1) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
 * 1) To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.

Usage notes

 * Sense 1 is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: дазваляць, дазволіць
 * Bulgarian:, и́мам сре́дства да ку́пя
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 付得起
 * Czech: dovolovat,
 * Danish: have råd til to be able to afford
 * Dutch: zich veroorloven
 * Finnish: olla varaa
 * French:
 * German:, imstande sein
 * Hungarian:, megengedheti magának
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 여유-가 있다
 * Latvian: atļauties
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: conseguir pagar,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: affuird
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: приу̀штити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: dovoľovať, dovoliť; dopriavať, dopriať
 * Slovene: privoščiti
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: sej dowolować, sej dowolić; sej popřewać, sej popřeć
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: дозволя́ти, бу́ти спромо́жним
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: skaffe,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian:, нада́ти


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , ,


 * Danish:, , skænke
 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Cornish:
 * Norman: