How does 決定 work before 出来ません?

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Hi!

I came across this example sentence in the vocab for 決定:

今すぐは決定出来ません。(I can’t decide right away.)

What I don’t understand is how 決定 works in relation to 出来ません. I know 出来る is intransitive and I’m assuming that “I” is the zero subject here, but if 決定 is a noun, how is it that it’s just meshed together with 出来る?

I’ve looked everywhere before posting and I just cannot find an explanation on how a noun would be placed like that before an intransitive verb (or any verb probably).

If anyone has an idea, I would greatly appreciate your input!

Thanks!

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決定できる is the potential form of 決定する.

できる appears directly next to 決定 the same way that する does.

Were you familiar with using する with nouns to make verbs like that?

勉強 studies/studying (noun)
勉強する study (verb)
勉強できる able to study

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Just to make sure everybody is aware, できる being effectively the potential form of する is an exception, normally potential forms are regular (like 読む → to read, 読める → to be able to read, 日本語を話す → I speak Japanese, 日本語を話せる → I’m able to speak Japanese). する being completely irregular, it doesn’t have a regular potential form and 出来る is used instead.

Another exceptional one is ありえる (to be possible, “to be able to exist”) which is effectively the potential version of ある (technically this formal/bookish える/得る construction is usable with all verbs like 読み得る, 話し得る etc… but it’s the only one that works with ある).

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I was aware this was a -suru verb, but I didn’t know する didn’t have a potential form and that 出来る was being used as a substitute for it. Thank you for your help!

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Yup, this makes it perfectly clear. Thank you for the links! I’m still at N5 level in Bunpro, so I hadn’t come across this.

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