coger
Meaning
- to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
- to pick, harvest
- to fish
- to seize, arrest; to overtake
- to get (a joke)
- to collect
- (Latin-America, vulgar) to have sex, to fuck, to bang
- (Spain) to imitate, learn
- (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
- (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)
- (Spain) to board (means of transportation)
Concepts
take hold of
grab onto
catch hold of
Synonyms
vergar
apoderarse de
Translations
prendre
prendere
nehmen
agafar
apanhar
nemenFrequency
Hyphenated as
co‧ger
Pronounced as (IPA)
/koˈxeɾ/
Etymology
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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