escolher

Meaning

to choose

Frequency

Hyphenated as

es‧co‧lher

Pronounced as (IPA)

/is.koˈʎe(ʁ)/

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escolher, possibly from a Vulgar Latin *excolligere, from Latin ex- + colligere (“to gather”). Compare Galician escoller, Spanish escoger, Catalan escollir.

Cognate with Galician

escoller

Cognate with Spanish

escoger

Cognate with Catalan

escollir

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Sentences

Chegou no ponto em que estamos , não
🚫

podemos mais escolher .

It has reached the point where we are, we can no longer choose.

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