coger

Significado (Inglés)

  1. to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
  2. to pick, harvest
  3. to fish
  4. to seize, arrest; to overtake
  5. to get (a joke)
  6. to collect
  7. (Latin-America, vulgar) to have sex, to fuck, to bang
  8. (Spain) to imitate, learn
  9. (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
  10. (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)
  11. (Spain) to board (means of transportation)

Frecuencia

B1
Con guión como
co‧ger
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/koˈxeɾ/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

In summary

Inherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Cognate with Portuguese colher, French cueillir, Sicilian cògghiri, and also with English cull, coil, college, and collect. Compare also the borrowed doublet colegir. Not related to Latin cōgere, coagere (“to assemble”).

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