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It would be fairly safe to say you can add -able to any verb that can bear the construction "can be + past participle" (this can be said → it is sayable), or as snailboat/plane pointed out all transitive verbs.

But:

1- The suffix is not always spellable as -able. It will be spelled -ible with a few verbs whose common point is to have a Latin root. I do not know why with some and not others, it may have something to do with the way the suffixation of the word was formed in Latin.
A few examples:

  • This post is perfectible.
  • Grammar rules aren't really flexible.
  • A collapsible bed (although I've already met a collapsable bed).

Sometimes the -able and -ible adjectives exist alongside, usually with a nuance in meaning. In these cases the -ible adjective has come directly from a Latin verb that has not made its way in present day English, and the -able adjective is formed from the present English verb of Saxon origin.

This cake is quite eatable means "it tastes nice". This cake is edible means I haven't put any poisonous substance in it.

A hearable sound (rarely used, I admit) is nice to hear, an audible sound has a physical quality (loudness for example) that makes you can hear it.

2- Sometimes the root of the verb will be slightly modified:

  • verbs ending in -ate: navigable, translatable...
  • (in)comprehensible. (I can't think of any other verb ending with -hend to generalize further)
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