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poner+ infinitive?

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Los compañeros de cursos superiores pudieron comprender mucho más que nosotros.

Why it´s pudieron compender? Is it poner + comprender? Poner + infinitive?

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updated Jan 29, 2011
posted by zhmelissa

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The construction is the same as in English

They could/were able to understand

To be able to/poder is conjugated and followed by the infinitive of understand/comprender.

updated Jan 29, 2011
posted by afowen
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It's poder. They could understand much more than we could.

updated Jan 29, 2011
posted by jeezzle
Thanks. - zhmelissa, Jan 29, 2011