The meaning of suitable and suited.
I think that "suitable" and "suited" have some different meaning but most native English speakers just told me that "suitable for" and "suited to" are right, but we can see "suitable to" and suited for" as well, especially in dictionaries. I think the meaning of "suitable" is related to "ability" because of the meaning of"-able", so I think there is some nuance between them and "for" and "to" can be followed to both "suitable and suited". What do you experts think? Thank you so much.
Suited and suitable have identical meaning, but are different parts of speech. Suited is an adjective. Suitable is an adverb.
In "the task is suited to a computer", the adjective phrase "suited to a computer" modifies the subject noun "task." But in "the task is suitable for a computer". the adverbial phrase "suitable for a computer" modifies the verb "is." At their basic level, the meanings of the two sentences are identical.
The choice of "to" or "for" is not determined by either suited or suitable alone. The choice of prepositions is determined mainly by the subject of the adverb/adjective phrase and its relationship to the word the phrase modifies.
Edit: Me cannot think without my coffee. Tolley is right. Both are adjectives. They have the same meaning.
I hope this helps.
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