- to look for, search for
- to seek
- to fetch, pick up (e.g. ir a buscar a alguien)
Word type: verb
- to give
- to produce, yield (e.g. fruit, crops)
- to cause, provoke (e.g. dar miedo – to frighten)
- to hit, strike (e.g. dar en el blanco – to hit the target)
- to strike (of a clock, e.g. dieron las tres – it struck three)
- to matter (e.g. da igual, no me da – it doesn’t matter to me)
- to see
- to watch (e.g. television, a film)
- to look at, check
- to understand, realise
- a ver: let’s see (used as an interjection)
- to be (used for essential characteristics, identity, origin, time, and permanent qualities)
- to happen, to take place
- to belong to, to be made of
See also estar.
- to leave, go out, exit
- to go out (socially, e.g. with friends or on a date)
- to come out, appear (e.g. the sun, a book, results)
- to turn out, end up (e.g. salir bien, salir caro)
- to leave, depart (transport)
- to remain, be left (over)
- to stay
- to arrange to meet, make plans
- to be located, be situated
- to turn out, end up (e.g. quedar bien, to make a good impression)
- to obtain, get, acquire
- to hold, hold up, support
- to sustain, maintain (an opinion, argument, family, etc.)
- to hold up, bear the weight of
- to entertain, amuse
- to delay, hold up, detain
- entretenerse: to amuse oneself, while away the time, linger
- to contain, hold (to have something inside)
- to contain, restrain, hold back (an emotion, impulse, or force)