dar.
to give, to give out
Meaning & usage
to give, to give out
Dame mi celular.
Te daré tiempo para jugar si terminas las tareas a tiempo.
to hand over
to hit (from any distance)
Me han dado en la cabeza.
to hit oneself, bump into, crash into
El coche se dio con un árbol.
Me di en el brazo contra la silla.
to encounter; to find with effort
Dimos con María.
Dimos con el edificio después de tres horas.
to emit
to produce
Las vacas dan leche.
to perform
to hit upon
to press, activate
darle al botón
¡Dale al (botón de) me gusta y suscríbete!
to ruin; mess up
Me dio la noche
to occur
to grow naturally
El maíz se da en esta tierra.
to consider, assume
Doy eso por menos que yo.
Yo lo doy por muerto.
to learn or teach a subject in class
Hoy hemos dado matemáticas en clase.
to pretend to be, to present oneself as though one were
Se las da de enfermera, pero nunca ha estudiado (para ello).
to have a feeling/hunch/intuition
Me da que no van a venir.
describes how good someone (the indirect object of the sentence) is at something; be ... at
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”
to feel like doing something
El otro día me dio por salir a caminar y me topé con Juan.
to surrender
¿Te das? — Me doy.
to fuck (used with third person direct objects only)
Vos solo te la das.
Me quiero dar a José.
to find someone sexually attractive (mostly to have a sexual encounter with), can be used like the English interjection would
Le re doy.
to announce, predict
Dan lluvia.
be enough
used for polite requests, following a gerund
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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