cobrar

Meaning

  1. (archaic,transitive) to recover, regain
  2. (archaic,transitive) to earn, win
  3. (transitive) to charge (ask for a certain amount of money for something)
  4. (transitive) to collect, receive (payment)
  5. (transitive) to haul
  6. (figuratively) to have what one's deserve (what goes around comes around)

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
[koˈβɾaɾ]
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cobrar, from Vulgar Latin *cuperāre (“take, seize”), rebracketing from Latin recuperāre (“recover, regain”), whence Galician recobrar. Doublet of recuperar, a borrowing from Latin.

Bookmark this

Galician

Start learning Galician with learnfeliz.

Practice speaking and memorizing "cobrar" and many other words and sentences in Galician.

Go to our Galician course page

Notes

Sign in to write sticky notes
Sentences
Cobrar  créditos  da   herdanza aínda   cando   non
🙅
  se   prestase  fianza.

Collection of inheritance credits, even when no bail has been provided.

Questions