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Giovanni Lido (@Giovanni_Lido on twitter) wrote:

I'm just a beginner and my grammar isn't so great. But I think you'd need the forms þata and guta. As for "be able," I'd say "can" (kunnan) in the subjunctive. Perhaps, "jabai þu þata (ussiggwan?) kunneis, aufto is þu [iþþu?] Guta" vel sim.?

The example sentence in Wiktionary for kunnan is, "Sie ni cunnun ēnig feho uuinnan" ("They don't know how to win any good"), which looks like the verb that comes after "can" is in the infinitive like I'd naively guessed, so 'ussiggwan' stays 'ussiggwan' ...

𐌾𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹 𐌸𐌿 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐍃𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌽 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌹𐍃, 𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍄𐍉 𐌹𐍃 𐌸𐌿 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰
ᛃᚨᛒᚨᛁ ᚦᚢ ᚦᚨᛏᚨ ᚢᛋᛋᛁᚷᚷᚹᚨᚾ ᚲᚢᚾᚾᛁᛋ, ᚨᚢᚠᛏᛟ ᛁᛋ ᚦᚢ ᚷᚢᛏᚨ
jabai þu þata ussiggwan kunnis, aufto is þu Guta

Or maybe...

𐌾𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌹 𐌸𐌿 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌽 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃, 𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍄𐍉 𐌹𐍃 𐌸𐌿 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰
ᛃᚨᛒᚨᛁ ᚦᚢ ᚦᚨᛏᚨ ᛋᛁᚷᚷᚹᚨᚾ ᚲᚢᚾᚾᛖᛁᛋ, ᚨᚢᚠᛏᛟ ᛁᛋ ᚦᚢ ᚷᚢᛏᚨ
jabai thu thata siggwan kunneis, aufto is thu Guta

The same caveats as before, of course, apply to my attempts to render these in the Gothic alphabet and in runes. (FWIW, in addition to just "to read", it appears 'siggwan'/'ussiggwan' also means "to read aloud" and "to sing", and that 'kunnan' is cognate to 'ken'.)

Also, "Thank you" in Gothic is "awiliudo thus". :-)