Examples of using "умел" in a sentence and their english translations:
I knew how to swim.
He could not swim.
Tom couldn't swim.
I knew how to keep a secret.
Tom was a smooth talker.
No one knew how to read.
Tom didn't know how to cook.
He could speak French.
Tom couldn't control his anger.
Tom didn't know how to control himself.
Tom knew how to talk to women.
Tom's grandfather couldn't read.
I'm the only one who knew how to do that.
I didn't know how to swim very well.
He answered by saying that he could swim well.
Tom never was much of a dancer.
I never could do it.
Tom has never been good at keeping secrets.
Tom couldn't play the guitar.
- I've known how to do that since I was a kid.
- I've known how to do that since I was a child.
Tom couldn't ride a horse back then.
You never could keep a secret.
He knew how to put his ideas across.
Tom didn't know how to ride a bicycle at that time.
- Tom wasn't able to read until he was thirteen.
- Tom couldn't read until he was thirteen.
- Tom couldn't read until he was thirteen years old.
- Tom wasn't able to read until he was thirteen years old.
I wish I could play guitar.
Tom didn't even know how to write his own name.
I didn't know how to ride a bicycle at that time.
I tried to teach him everything I could.
- Tom wasn't able to read until he was thirteen.
- Tom couldn't read until he was thirteen.
- Tom couldn't read until he was thirteen years old.
- Tom wasn't able to read until he was thirteen years old.
At two years old, you were able to count till ten.
You knew how to count to ten when you were two years old.
When Ahmad was a boy, he could climb tall trees.
I could swim well when I was a child, too.
- Tom could write his name when he was three years old.
- Tom could write his name when he was three.
Were you able to swim when you were thirteen years old?
Tom could read before he started going to school.
At five years old he already knew how to ski.
- No one I know knows how to do that.
- Nobody I know knows how to do that.
Tom knew how to do it.
He could speak French.
You knew how to count to ten when you were two years old.
I wish I could swim.
Could you ride a bicycle when you were three years old?
When you were two years old, you could already count to ten.
I wish I could drive.
If I knew how to use a computer, maybe they would pay me more.
You never could keep a secret.
- He answered that he could swim well.
- He answered by saying that he could swim well.
I'd also contribute to Tatoeba if I knew how to read and write.
Unfortunately, Tom didn't have a lifejacket and he couldn't swim.
Sami knew how to talk to young women.
Even though John could fight, Adrion was still the strongest out of the three of us.
If Tom knew how to swim, he'd probably want to go to the beach with us.
That was the only thing I could do.
- I forgot that Tom knows how to read French.
- I forgot Tom knew how to read French.
I wish I could play the piano as well as Susie.
- He answered that he could swim well.
- He answered by saying that he could swim well.
Tom didn't learn to drive until he was thirty.
Two years ago I could not play basketball at all.
Could you ride a bicycle when you were three years old?
How do you draw so well? I've never been able to do that.
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.