agarrar
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Asturian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]agarrar (first-person singular indicative present agarro, past participle agarráu)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of agarrar
Mirandese
[edit]Verb
[edit]agarrar
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a- + garra (“claw”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: a‧gar‧rar
Verb
[edit]agarrar (first-person singular present agarro, first-person singular preterite agarrei, past participle agarrado)
- (transitive) to grab; to grip; to grasp (hold, or take hold of, forcefully)
- Alguém me agarrou por trás. ― Someone grabbed me from behind.
- (transitive) to claw (grab or strike with one’s claws)
- A águia agarrou o peixe. ― The eagle clawed the fish.
- (pronominal) to hold on; to cling (hold very tightly) [with em ‘to something’]
- Se a escada estiver muito lisa, se agarre no corrimão. ― If the stairs are too slippery, hold on to the railing.
- (figurative, pronominal) to cling to; to love (be very fond of; to feel strongly about) [with em or a ‘someone/something’]
- Eu me agarro em leitura. ― I love reading.
- (pronominal) to have a go at; to brawl (with); to get physical (with) (engage in a physical fight) [with com or a ‘with someone’]
- Os bêbados começaram a se agarrar. ― The drunks began brawling.
- Um idiota queria se agarrar comigo. ― Some idiot wanted to fight with me.
- (transitive) to get physical with (make physical contact sexually)
- Os estudantes foram pegos se agarrando. ― The students were caught getting physical with one another.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of agarrar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “agarrar”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “agarrar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “agarrar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “agarrar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “agarrar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “agarrar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a- + garra (“claw”) + -ar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]agarrar (first-person singular present agarro, first-person singular preterite agarré, past participle agarrado)
- to grab or take hold of
- Synonym: aferrar
- (reflexive) to hold on
- Synonym: asir
- Se agarró de mi brazo para no caerse
- She caught hold of my arm so she wouldn't fall
- (transitive, colloquial) to catch (an illness, feeling etc.)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of agarrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of agarrar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]- agarrada
- agarradera
- agarradero
- agarrado
- agárramela que me crece
- agarrar a putazos
- agarrar de pato
- agarrar el gusto
- agarrar fuego el cañal
- agarrar llave
- agarrarse a un clavo ardiendo
- agárrate que vienen curvas
- agarrón
- de agárrate
- tanto peca el que mata a la vaca como el que le agarra la pata
- tener agarrado por los cojones
Further reading
[edit]- “agarrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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