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dar.

to give, to give out

3 characters1 syllables approx.Español language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈdaɾ/[ˈd̪aɾ]
  1. to give, to give out

    ditransitive
    Dame mi celular.
    Te daré tiempo para jugar si terminas las tareas a tiempo.
  2. to hand over

    ditransitive
  3. to hit (from any distance)

    transitive
    Me han dado en la cabeza.
  4. to hit oneself, bump into, crash into

    reflexive
    El coche se dio con un árbol.
    Me di en el brazo contra la silla.
  5. to encounter; to find with effort

    intransitive
    Dimos con María.
    Dimos con el edificio después de tres horas.
  6. to emit

    transitive
  7. to produce

    transitive
    Las vacas dan leche.
  8. to perform

    transitive
  9. to hit upon

    transitive
  10. to press, activate

    colloquial · intransitive
    darle al botón
    ¡Dale al (botón de) me gusta y suscríbete!
  11. to ruin; mess up

    colloquial · transitive
    Me dio la noche
  12. to occur

    reflexive
  13. to grow naturally

    reflexive
    El maíz se da en esta tierra.
  14. to consider, assume

    transitive
    Doy eso por menos que yo.
    Yo lo doy por muerto.
  15. to learn or teach a subject in class

    transitive
    Hoy hemos dado matemáticas en clase.
  16. to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were

    informal · reflexive
    Se las da de enfermera, pero nunca ha estudiado (para ello).
  17. to have a feeling/hunch/intuition

    impersonal
    Me da que no van a venir.
  18. describes how good someone (the indirect object of the sentence) is at something; be ... at

    reflexive
    Se me da muy bien el fútbol, pero el baloncesto se me da más o menos. Literally, “Football gives itself to me very well, but basketball gives itself to me more or less”
  19. to feel like doing something

    impersonal
    El otro día me dio por salir a caminar y me topé con Juan.
  20. to surrender

    Mexico · reflexive
    ¿Te das? — Me doy.
  21. to fuck (used with third person direct objects only)

    El-Salvador · reflexive · transitive · vulgar
    Vos solo te la das.
    Me quiero dar a José.
  22. to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with), can be used like the English interjection would

    Argentina · colloquial
    Le re doy.
  23. to announce, predict

    transitive
    Dan lluvia.
  24. be enough

  25. used for polite requests, following a gerund

    Ecuador · colloquial · imperative
    Deme haciendo el trabajo.
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Old Spanish dar Spanish dar Inherited from Old Spanish dar (“to give”), from Latin dare.

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