poner
Meaning
- (transitive) to put, to put up, to place, to lay
- (transitive) to set, to set up (e.g. set an alarm, set up chairs)
- (transitive) to put on (e.g. put on a smile, a happy face, a brave face; put on a pot of coffee, put something on display)
- (transitive) to choose, to designate (for a job, charge or responsibility)
- (transitive) to make (e.g. make somebody nervous, jealous, sad, emotional, uncomfortable)
- (transitive) to make, to give (in certain phrases; e.g. to make available, give an injection, to give effect)
- (transitive) to say, to read (statement: indicate in written form)
- (transitive) to name, to give a nickname
- (transitive) to bring (e.g. to bring online, to bring order to, to bring up to speed or date, to bring to light)
- (transitive) to lay (e.g. to lay eggs, lay the foundation or groundwork)
- (transitive) to turn, to turn on (e.g. to turn the other cheek, turn on music, to turn upside-down)
- (transitive) to get (in certain phrases)
- (transitive) to call (in certain phrases; e.g. to call into question, call into doubt, call somebody's bluff)
- (transitive) to pay (attention)
- (transitive) to draw (e.g. to draw a line or set up a boundary)
- (transitive) to plant, to set up (e.g. plant one's feet, plant a bomb, set up explosives, plant a bug, set up a camera, plant a weapon)
- (Mexico,slang,transitive) to contribute; to bring
- to play
- (Spain,colloquial,transitive) to turn on, make horny
- (reflexive) to put on, to don, to change into (clothing, shoes, accoutrements)
- (reflexive) to get
- (reflexive) (of a heavenly body) to set (i.e., to sink beneath the horizon)
- (reflexive) to become, to get ("become" is used in reference to entering into a physical or emotional state) (e.g. become anxious, fashionable, naughty, nervous, offensive, pale, sad, serious, stern, tense, ugly, violent, weird, etc.)
- (reflexive) to start doing something, to begin, to get down to (+ a + infinitive)
- (reflexive) to put oneself
Concepts
impose upon
make use of
put on clothes
require
stick in
turn to account
become ill
be written
pass oneself off
become better
become healthy
put onto
Synonyms
hacer uso de
caer enfermo
incluír
poner huevos
recobrar fuerza
poner malo
entredicho poner
Frequency
Hyphenated as
po‧ner
Pronounced as (IPA)
/poˈneɾ/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pōnere (whence English post and position), from Proto-Italic *pozinō. Compare Portuguese pôr.
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