contar

Sentences

An user

Mas antes de eu ir ? eu quero te contar uma pequena história .

But before I go? I want to tell you a little story.

An user

Vovó é uma pessoa
🧑‍🦱

que gosta de contar histórias .

Grandma is a person who likes to tell stories.

An user

Ele decantou o vinho
🍷

e começou a contar a história perturbadora que lhe contaram .

He decanted the wine and began to tell the disturbing story they told him.

Meaning

(transitive) to tell (to convey given information)
(transitive) to tell; to narrate (relate a story or series of events)
(transitive) to count (determine the quantity of)
(transitive) to be [an amount of time] old; to have [an amount of time] of existence
(intransitive) to rely, to count
(intransitive, transitive) to have at one’s disposal; to have available
(intransitive) to count; to matter (be of significance)

tell story

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kõˈta(ʁ)/

Inherited from Latin

computō

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese contar, from Latin computāre. Doublet of computar.

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