coger

(Engels)

  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)

Frequentie

B1
Met koppelteken als
co‧ger
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/koˈxeɾ/
Etymologie (Engels)

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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