chegar
Sentences
Meaning
- to arrive (at); to reach (to conclude moving to a destination)
- (intransitive) to arrive (to reach the present time)
- to reach (to extend to as far as)
- (intransitive) to come to; to reach (to get to the extreme value of)
- to do an action that is considered extreme; even; to reach the point of
- (intransitive) to suffice (to be enough)
- (auxiliary, impersonal, intransitive) indicates that something should be stopped; to be enough
- (transitive) to bring to (to place something next to)
- (pronominal) to approach (to come nearer)
- (intransitive) to approach (to deal with something in a particular manner)
Concepts
be enough
come near to
be going
reason out
be met
come to happen
put oneself close to
put close to
be back
Opposite of
sair, partir, ir embora
Synonyms
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃeˈɡa(ʁ)/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chegar, from Latin plicāre. Compare Galician chegar and Spanish llegar. See also the doublets pregar and plicar.
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