δύναται (dunatai) in Matthew 5:14: Verb Third Person Singular Present Middle or Passive Deponent Indicative

Verb: the form names an action, state, or verbal relationship in the clause.

Present: read the tense and aspect from this occurrence, with the sentence controlling the exact force.

Middle: voice should be read from the morphology label and clause context.

Indicative: mood should serve the sentence rather than override it.

Person: the form includes person marking, so the clause identifies the grammatical subject through the verb ending.

Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.

Singular: the form is marked for a single grammatical subject or referent.

Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.

Be hidden

The city comparison in Matthew 5:14

States that the visible city is not able to be hidden.

Do not turn ability language into a detached claim about human power.

Medium: visibility warning

Negated ability verb. states what cannot happen to the city. Attached to be hidden. Governed by the city comparison in Matthew 5:14. Read with a city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Can the city in the comparison be hidden? No. The verb states that it cannot be hidden.

Direct: The form supports cannot or is not able.

This occurrence must be read within Matthew 5:14, not as a standalone word study.

The witness reads δύναται in Matthew 5:14.

The lemma means to be able, and here it is negated to say the city cannot be hidden.

The finite verb works with the passive infinitive to state impossibility within the comparison.

Jesus uses the city image to press the public visibility of the light saying.

The form supports visible witness without expanding the city into a full allegory.

Use it to explain the cannot in the city comparison.

Do not build a doctrine of visibility from this verb apart from the image.