conseguir

Meaning

1. (transitive) to get, obtain
2. (transitive) to achieve
3. to be able to, can

Hyphenated as

con‧se‧guir

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kõ.seˈɡi(ʁ)/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *cōnsequīre or cōnsequere, from Latin cōnsequī. By surface analysis, con- (“co-”) + seguir (“to follow”).