falar

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) to speak, to talk
2. (intransitive) [with con ‘to someone’]
3. (intransitive) to speak
4. (intransitive) to talk about
5. (transitive) to speak (to be able to communicate in a language)
6. (pronominal) to get along
7. (intransitive) to have a relation

Noun

speech

Pronounced as (IPA)

/faˈlaɾ/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: fabulor

Cognate with Portuguese: falar

Cognate with Spanish: hablar

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulārī (“chat, converse”). Doublet of fabular, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare Asturian, Mirandese and Portuguese falar, Spanish hablar.

Sentences

¡ E podes falar e todo !

You can talk and everything!

A miña mestra quere falar contigo .

My teacher wants to talk to you.

Podemos falar do servizo de limpeza.

We can talk about the cleaning service.

¡ Pero falen con quen hai que falar !

Talk to someone you need to talk to!

Minutos antes do inicio do acto a autoridade gobernativa prohibiu falar en galego .

Minutes before the start of the event the governmental authority forbade speaking in Welsh.

A partir deste momento comézase a falar dun embrión .

At that point, we started talking about an embryo.