coger
See also: Coger
English
editNoun
editcoger (plural cogers)
- Obsolete form of codger.
- 1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:
- Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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editSpanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Cognate with Portuguese colher, French cueillir, Sicilian cògghiri, and also with English cull, coil, college, and collect. Compare also the borrowed doublet colegir.
Not related to Latin cōgere, coagere (“to assemble”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcoger (first-person singular present cojo, first-person singular preterite cogí, past participle cogido)
- (Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain) to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
- to pick, harvest
- Synonyms: cosechar, recolectar
- to fish
- to seize, arrest; to overtake
- Synonyms: atrapar, aprehender, capturar
- to get (a joke)
- to collect
- Synonym: colectar
- (vulgar, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Central America) to have sex, to fuck, to bang
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder
- (Spain) to imitate, learn
- (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
- (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)
- Synonym: dar vuelta
- (Spain) to board (means of transportation)
- Tengo que coger el tren.
- I have a train to catch.
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of coger (g-j alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive | coger | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | cogiendo | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | cogido | cogida | |||||
plural | cogidos | cogidas | |||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
indicative | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | cojo | cogestú cogésvos |
coge | cogemos | cogéis | cogen | |
imperfect | cogía | cogías | cogía | cogíamos | cogíais | cogían | |
preterite | cogí | cogiste | cogió | cogimos | cogisteis | cogieron | |
future | cogeré | cogerás | cogerá | cogeremos | cogeréis | cogerán | |
conditional | cogería | cogerías | cogería | cogeríamos | cogeríais | cogerían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | coja | cojastú cojásvos2 |
coja | cojamos | cojáis | cojan | |
imperfect (ra) |
cogiera | cogieras | cogiera | cogiéramos | cogierais | cogieran | |
imperfect (se) |
cogiese | cogieses | cogiese | cogiésemos | cogieseis | cogiesen | |
future1 | cogiere | cogieres | cogiere | cogiéremos | cogiereis | cogieren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | cogetú cogévos |
coja | cojamos | coged | cojan | ||
negative | no cojas | no coja | no cojamos | no cojáis | no cojan |
Selected combined forms of coger (g-j alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
edit- antecoger
- antes se coge al mentiroso que al cojo
- cogedero
- cogedizo
- cogedor
- cogedura
- coger al paso
- coger el portante
- coger el sol
- coger el teléfono
- coger en medio
- coger la calle
- coger la delantera
- coger la palabra
- coger las palabras
- coger los pasos
- coger por sorpresa
- coger una liebre
- cogérsela con papel de fumar
- cogida
- sobrecoger
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “coger” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
- “coger”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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