trocar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to replace, to substitute (to remove something and put a new one in its place)
  2. (intransitive) to change (to dispose of something one owns or is using and get a new one)
  3. (transitive) to trade; to exchange [with direct object ‘something’ and com ‘with someone’ and por ‘for something else’]}}
  4. (transitive) to swap (to switch the position of two things)
  5. (transitive) to exchange (to give and receive simultaneously)
  6. (reflexive) to change (to replace the clothing one is wearing)

Frequency

B1
Hyphenated as
tro‧car
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɾoˈka(ʁ)/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese trocar, from French troquer, from Frankish *trokan. Cognate with Spanish trocar.

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