pegar
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pegar (first-person singular present pego, first-person singular preterite peguí, past participle pegat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia, Balearic) /e/
- to hit somebody (in order to harm)
- Per què li pegueu a aquest noi? ― Why are you hitting this boy?
- (dialectal) to hit one body with another
- (dialectal, used with cop (“knock”), empenta (“shove”), etc.) to knock, shove somebody
- (dialectal, used with bot (“jump”), salt (“jump”) etc.) to jump
- (dialectal) to throw, show sudden emotion
- Synonym: agafar
- Li va pegar una rabinadura al mig de la plaça ― He threw a tantrum in the middle of the square
- (dialectal) to glue
Usage notes edit
- Words like "to jump", "to shove", "to knock" can be expressed in two ways. The first is with simple verbs (saltar, empènyer, pegar). The second is to use the construction with a verb roughly meaning "to make" plus indefinite article plus substantive (fer un salt / donar un salt / pegar un salt, donar una empenta / pegar una empenta, donar un cop / pegar un cop).
Conjugation edit
infinitive | pegar | ||||||
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gerund | pegant | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pegat | pegada | |||||
plural | pegats | pegades | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | pego | pegues | pega | peguem | pegueu | peguen | |
imperfect | pegava | pegaves | pegava | pegàvem | pegàveu | pegaven | |
future | pegaré | pegaràs | pegarà | pegarem | pegareu | pegaran | |
preterite | peguí | pegares | pegà | pegàrem | pegàreu | pegaren | |
conditional | pegaria | pegaries | pegaria | pegaríem | pegaríeu | pegarien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | pegui | peguis | pegui | peguem | pegueu | peguin | |
imperfect | pegués | peguessis | pegués | peguéssim | peguéssiu | peguessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
affirmative | — | pega | pegui | peguem | pegueu | peguin | |
negative (no) | — | no peguis | no pegui | no peguem | no pegueu | no peguin |
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pegar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “pegar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “pegar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese pegar (att. 14th c.), from Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pegar (first-person singular present pego, first-person singular preterite peguei, past participle pegado)
- (transitive) to glue
- Synonym: colar
- (transitive) to adhere
- Synonym: adherir
- (transitive) to fix in place; to hold, steady
- Synonym: fixar
- (transitive) to hold, steady
- Synonym: termar
- (transitive) to join, splice
- (transitive) to hit, blow
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to come closer; to stick
- Synonym: achegar
- (transitive) to infect; pass on; infect (a disease)
- Synonym: contaxiar
- (transitive, informal) to do; take; have (a kind of catch-all verb for various actions)
- Synonym: dar
Conjugation edit
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) |
Second-person (ti) |
Third-person (el / ela / Vde.) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | pegar | |||||
Personal | pegar | pegares | pegar | pegarmos | pegardes | pegaren |
Gerund | ||||||
pegando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | pegado | pegados | ||||
Feminine | pegada | pegadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | pego | pegas | pega | pegamos | pegades | pegan |
Imperfect | pegaba | pegabas | pegaba | pegabamos | pegabades | pegaban |
Preterite | peguei | pegaches | pegou | pegamos | pegastes | pegaron |
Pluperfect | pegara | pegaras | pegara | pegaramos | pegarades | pegaran |
Future | pegarei | pegarás | pegará | pegaremos | pegaredes | pegarán |
Conditional | pegaría | pegarías | pegaría | pegariamos | pegariades | pegarían |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | pegue | pegues | pegue | peguemos | peguedes | peguen |
Imperfect | pegase | pegases | pegase | pegásemos | pegásedes | pegasen |
Future | pegar | pegares | pegar | pegarmos | pegardes | pegaren |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | pega | pegue | peguemos | pegade | peguen | |
Negative (non) | non pegues | non pegue | non peguemos | non peguedes | non peguen |
1Less recommended.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “pegar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “peg” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “pegar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pegar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pegar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Indonesian edit
Noun edit
pegar (first-person possessive pegarku, second-person possessive pegarmu, third-person possessive pegarnya)
Malay edit
Noun edit
pegar (plural pegar-pegar, informal 1st possessive pegarku, 2nd possessive pegarmu, 3rd possessive pegarnya)
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”).
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Verb edit
pegar
Conjugation edit
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | pegar | aver pegat | |||||
gerund | pegant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
past participle | pegat | — | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
present | pegui | pegas | pega | pegam | pegatz | pegan | |
imperfect | pegavi | pegavas | pegava | pegàvem | pegàvetz | pegavan | |
preterite | peguèri | peguères | peguèt | peguèrem | peguèretz | peguèron | |
future | pegarai | pegaràs | pegarà | pegarem | pegaretz | pegaràn | |
conditional | pegariái | pegariás | pegariá | pegariam | pegariatz | pegarián | |
conditional 2nd form1 | peguèra | peguèras | peguèra | pegueram | pegueratz | peguèran | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
present | pegue | pegues | pegue | peguem | peguetz | peguen | |
imperfect | peguèssi | peguèsses | peguèsse | peguèssem | peguèssetz | peguèsson | |
compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
pega | peguem | pegatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | pegar | aver pegat | |||||
gerund | pegant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
past participle | pegat | — | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
present | pegue | pegues | pega | pegam | pegatz | pegon | |
imperfect | pegave | pegaves | pegava | pegaviam | pegaviatz | pegavon | |
preterite | peguere | pegueres | peguet | peguem | peguetz | pegueron | |
future | pegarai | pegaràs | pegará | pegarem | pegaretz | pegarán | |
conditional | pegariá | pegariás | pegariá | pegariam | pegariatz | pegarián | |
conditional 2nd form1 | peguèra | peguèras | peguèra | pegueram | pegueratz | peguèran | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
present | pegue | pegues | pegue | pegassiam | pegassiatz | pegon | |
imperfect | peguesse | peguesses | peguesse | peguessiam | peguessiatz | peguesson | |
compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
pega | pegassiam | pegatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | pegar | aver pegat | |||||
gerund | pegant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
past participle | pegat | — | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
present | pegui | pegas | pega | pegam | pegatz | pegan | |
imperfect | pegavi | pegavas | pegava | pegàvam | pegàvatz | pegavan | |
preterite | peguèi | peguès | peguè | peguèm | peguètz | peguèn | |
future | pegarèi | pegaràs | pegarà | pegaram | pegaratz | pegaràn | |
conditional | pegarí | pegarés | pegaré | pegarem | pegaretz | pegarén | |
conditional 2nd form1 | peguèra | peguèras | peguèra | pegueram | pegueratz | peguèran | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
present | pegui | pegues | pegue | peguem | peguetz | peguen | |
imperfect | peguèssi | peguèsses | peguèsse | peguèssem | peguèssetz | peguèssen | |
compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
pega | peguem | pegatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
simple | compound | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | pegar | aver pegat | |||||
gerund | pegant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
past participle | pegat | — | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
present | pegue | pegas | pega | pegam | pegatz | pegan | |
imperfect | pegava | pegavas | pegava | pegàvam | pegàvatz | pegavan | |
preterite | peguei | pegueras | peguet | peguèram | peguèratz | pegueran | |
future | pegarai | pegaràs | pegará | pegarem | pegaretz | pegarán | |
conditional | pegariá | pegariàs | pegariá | pegariam | pegariatz | pegarián | |
conditional 2nd form1 | peguèra | peguèras | peguèra | pegueram | pegueratz | peguèran | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
present | pegue | pegues | pegue | peguem | peguetz | peguen | |
imperfect | peguèsse | peguèsses | peguèsse | peguèssem | peguèssetz | peguèssen | |
compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
pega | peguem | pegatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
simple | compound | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
infinitive | pegar | aver pegat | |||||
gerund | pegant | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
past participle | pegat | — | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
present | pegue | pegues | pega | pegam | pegatz | pegan | |
imperfect | pegavi | pegavas | pegava | pegàvem | pegàvetz | pegavan | |
preterite | peguère | peguères | peguèt | pegueriam | pegueriatz | peguèron | |
future | pegarai | pegaràs | pegarà | pegarem | pegaretz | pegaràn | |
conditional | pegariáu | pegariás | pegariá | pegariam | pegariatz | pegarián | |
conditional 2nd form1 | peguèra | peguèras | peguèra | pegueram | pegueratz | peguèran | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
present | pegue | pegues | pegue | peguem | peguetz | pegan | |
imperfect | peguèsse | peguèsses | peguèsse | peguessiam | peguessiatz | peguèsson | |
compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
pega | peguem | pegatz | 1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects | ||||
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), from pix (“pitch”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /pɛˈɡa(h)/
- (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈɡa(ɹ)/
- Hyphenation: pe‧gar
Verb edit
pegar (first-person singular present pego, first-person singular preterite peguei, past participle pegado, short past participle pego)
- (transitive) to catch
- (transitive with em) to touch
- (Brazil, slang, transitive, reflexive) to engage in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with someone for one night or some short period of time
- (colloquial, transitive, reflexive) to fight, to beat up, to engage in a physical conflict
- Eu vou te pegar na porrada!
- I'm going to beat you up!
- (transitive, intransitive) to stick, to glue
- Fernando Tordo (lyrics and music) (1973) “Tourada”, (in Portuguese): “E só ficam os peões de brega / Cuja profissão não pega ― And only the peões de brega are left / whose profession doesn't stick”
- Synonym: colar
- (colloquial, intransitive) to catch on
- (Brazil, transitive) to catch, to take (a transport)
Usage notes edit
The short past participle form pego is mostly used in Brazilian Portuguese.
Conjugation edit
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pegar.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pegar” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “pegar” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “pegar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “pegar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “pegar” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “pegar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin picāre (“smear with pitch”), derived from pix (“pitch”). Compare English pitch.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pegar (first-person singular present pego, first-person singular preterite pegué, past participle pegado)
- (intransitive) to stick
- No pega a la pared
- It doesn't stick to the wall.
- (intransitive) to match; to fit; to go with
- La mesa no pega con la silla.
- The table doesn't go with the chair.
- (intransitive) to be strong (of food and drink)
- Hoy pega mucho el sol.
- The sun is hot/strong/blazing down today.
- (computing, transitive) to paste
- copia y pega ― copy and paste
- (transitive) to glue
- Pégalo con el pegamento
- Glue it with the glue
- (transitive) to hit; strike
- pega el balón ― hit the ball
- (transitive) to give; dish out (a strike)
- ¡Te voy a pegar un manotazo!
- I'm gonna give you a slap!
- (transitive) to infect; pass on; infect (a disease)
- Creo que me pegó la sífilis.
- I think he gave me syphilis.
- (transitive, informal) to do; take; have (a kind of catch-all verb for various actions)
- Synonym: dar
- Voy a pegarme una ducha.
- I'm going to take a shower.
- Aquí falta pegar una buena limpieza.
- This place needs (to have) a good clean-up.
- Pegamos una buena comida.
- We had an awesome lunch
- Acaba de pegar otro grito.
- She's just let out another shout
- ¡No te pegues otra borrachera!
- Don't get smashed again!
- pegar un tiro; pegarse un tiro ― to shoot; to shoot oneself
- (colloquial) to flirt, hit on
- (reflexive) (intransitive) to stick, to become attached, to adhere
- (reflexive) (intransitive) to take root
Conjugation edit
infinitive | pegar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | pegando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | pegado | pegada | |||||
plural | pegados | pegadas | |||||
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 | pego | pegastú pegásvos |
pega | pegamos | pegáis | pegan | |
imperfect | pegaba | pegabas | pegaba | pegábamos | pegabais | pegaban | |
preterite | pegué | pegaste | pegó | pegamos | pegasteis | pegaron | |
future | pegaré | pegarás | pegará | pegaremos | pegaréis | pegarán | |
conditional | pegaría | pegarías | pegaría | pegaríamos | pegaríais | pegarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | pegue | peguestú peguésvos2 |
pegue | peguemos | peguéis | peguen | |
imperfect (ra) |
pegara | pegaras | pegara | pegáramos | pegarais | pegaran | |
imperfect (se) |
pegase | pegases | pegase | pegásemos | pegaseis | pegasen | |
future1 | pegare | pegares | pegare | pegáremos | pegareis | pegaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | pegatú pegávos |
pegue | peguemos | pegad | peguen | ||
negative | no pegues | no pegue | no peguemos | no peguéis | no peguen |
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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