coger

Meaning

  1. (Colombia,Cuba,Dominican-Republic,Ecuador,Peru,Philippines,Puerto-Rico,Spain) 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. (Argentina,Bolivia,Central-America,Colombia,Dominican-Republic,Mexico,Paraguay,Uruguay,Venezuela,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)

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
co‧ger
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈxeɾ/
Etymology

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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