"Konuşabilirdim."
Translation:I could have talked.
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It looks like it could be interpreted as "I used to know how to talk" because it has this aorist+past part, yet the translation is "I could've talked" which implies that I had the chance to talk but for some reason I didn't. On the other hand, there was a sentence like "Konuşabildim" and the suggested translation was "I could talk". Can someone explain everything there's to know about past abilities in Turkish?
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yes exactly the sentence above implies that I had the chance to talk but for some reason I didn't.
it could be interpreted as "I used to know how to talk" too, but we would rather say "konuşabiliyordum" for that. I don't know why, sorry :)
and "konuşabildim" means "I could talk" as in "I was able to talk".
I guess that's all about the abilities. but we can also add another possibility: "I might have talked": konuşmuş olabilirim.