tocar
Aragonese
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edittocar
- (transitive) to touch
Conjugation
editThis entry needs an inflection-table template.
References
edit- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “tocar”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edittocar (first-person singular indicative present toco, past participle tocáu)
Conjugation
editinfinitive | tocar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | tocando | ||||||
past participle | m tocáu, f tocada, n tocao, m pl tocaos, f pl tocaes | ||||||
person | first singular yo |
second singular tu |
third singular él/elli |
first plural nosotros/nós |
second plural vosotros/vós |
third plural ellos | |
indicative | present | toco | toques | toca | tocamos | tocáis | toquen |
imperfect | tocaba | tocabes | tocaba | tocábemos, tocábamos | tocabeis, tocabais | tocaben | |
preterite | toqué | tocasti, toquesti | tocó | toquemos | tocastis, toquestis | tocaron | |
pluperfect | tocare, tocara | tocares, tocaras | tocare, tocara | tocáremos, tocáramos | tocareis, tocarais | tocaren, tocaran | |
future | tocaré | tocarás | tocará | tocaremos | tocaréis | tocarán | |
conditional | tocaría | tocaríes | tocaría | tocaríemos, tocaríamos | tocaríeis, tocaríais | tocaríen | |
subjunctive | present | toque | toques, tocas | toque | toquemos | toquéis | toquen, tocan |
imperfect | tocare, tocara | tocares, tocaras | tocare, tocara | tocáremos, tocáramos | tocareis, tocarais | tocaren, tocaran | |
imperative | — | toca | — | — | tocái | — |
Catalan
editEtymology
editInherited from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [tuˈka]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [toˈka]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [toˈkaɾ]
- Homophones: tocà, tucà
- Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
Verb
edittocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toquí, past participle tocat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
Conjugation
editinfinitive | tocar | ||||||
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gerund | tocant | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | tocat | tocada | |||||
plural | tocats | tocades | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | toco | toques | toca | toquem | toqueu | toquen | |
imperfect | tocava | tocaves | tocava | tocàvem | tocàveu | tocaven | |
future | tocaré | tocaràs | tocarà | tocarem | tocareu | tocaran | |
preterite | toquí | tocares | tocà | tocàrem | tocàreu | tocaren | |
conditional | tocaria | tocaries | tocaria | tocaríem | tocaríeu | tocarien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | toqui | toquis | toqui | toquem | toqueu | toquin | |
imperfect | toqués | toquessis | toqués | toquéssim | toquéssiu | toquessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
affirmative | — | toca | toqui | toquem | toqueu | toquin | |
negative (no) | — | no toquis | no toqui | no toquem | no toqueu | no toquin |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tocar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tocar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tocar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tocar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese tocar, from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edittocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toquei, past participle tocado)
- to touch
- Synonym: tanguer
- 1454, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 315:
- Para o qual o dito Ferrnand Dourado fezo juramento solepne aos santo euangeos en hun libro misal que tocou con suas maos
- For which said Fernando Dourado swore a solemn oath to the Holy Gospels in a missal book that he touched with his hands
- to play (a musical instrument or a musical recording)
- Synonym: tanguer
- (intransitive) to knock
- Synonym: petar
- Quen toca na porta? ― Who's knocking on the door?
- to ring
- Synonym: tanguer
- (impersonal) to be awarded; to win, obtain
- Ó que máis tarda menos lle toca (proverb) ― He who delays more gets less
- (impersonal) to be someone's time or turn
- Tócame! ― It's my turn!
Conjugation
editSingular | 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 | tocar | |||||
Personal | tocar | tocares | tocar | tocarmos | tocardes | tocaren |
Gerund | ||||||
tocando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | tocado | tocados | ||||
Feminine | tocada | tocadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | toco | tocas | toca | tocamos | tocades | tocan |
Imperfect | tocaba | tocabas | tocaba | tocabamos | tocabades | tocaban |
Preterite | toquei | tocaches | tocou | tocamos | tocastes | tocaron |
Pluperfect | tocara | tocaras | tocara | tocaramos | tocarades | tocaran |
Future | tocarei | tocarás | tocará | tocaremos | tocaredes | tocarán |
Conditional | tocaría | tocarías | tocaría | tocariamos | tocariades | tocarían |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | toque | toques | toque | toquemos | toquedes | toquen |
Imperfect | tocase | tocases | tocase | tocásemos | tocásedes | tocasen |
Future | tocar | tocares | tocar | tocarmos | tocardes | tocaren |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | toca | toque | toquemos | tocade | toquen | |
Negative (non) | non toques | non toque | non toquemos | non toquedes | non toquen |
1Less recommended.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tocar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tocar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tocar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tocar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Further reading
edit- “tocar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- “tocar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Occitan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Verb
edittocar
Conjugation
editThis verb needs an inflection-table template.
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: to‧car
Verb
edittocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toquei, past participle tocado)
- (transitive or intransitive) to touch, to finger, to feel (tactually) [transitive or with em ‘something’]
- (intransitive, figurative) to start addressing [with em ‘a particular subject or issue’]
- Já que você tocou nessa questão, vamos continuar ― Since you began talking about that issue, let's continue
- (transitive) to play (a musical instrument)
- Ela toca piano muito bem ― She plays the piano very well
- (transitive) to sound, jingle, to honk, to ring (a bell, alarm, horn or similar object)
- (transitive, Brazil, informal) to kick out, to expulse
- Alguém precisa tocá-lo daqui ― Someone has to kick him out from here
- (reflexive, Brazil, informal) to become aware; to realize or perceive
- Só me toquei depois. ― I only realized it later.
- Synonyms: ligar, dar-se conta
Usage notes
editWhen used transitively in its most frequent sense ("to touch"), the verb tocar is typically followed by the preposition em. Despite its popularity, this addition is completely optional and doesn't alter the verb's meaning.
Conjugation
editSingular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | tocar | |||||
Personal | tocar | tocares | tocar | tocarmos | tocardes | tocarem |
Gerund | ||||||
tocando | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | tocado | tocados | ||||
Feminine | tocada | tocadas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | toco | tocas | toca | tocamos | tocais | tocam |
Imperfect | tocava | tocavas | tocava | tocávamos | tocáveis | tocavam |
Preterite | toquei | tocaste | tocou | tocamos1, tocámos2 | tocastes | tocaram |
Pluperfect | tocara | tocaras | tocara | tocáramos | tocáreis | tocaram |
Future | tocarei | tocarás | tocará | tocaremos | tocareis | tocarão |
Conditional | tocaria | tocarias | tocaria | tocaríamos | tocaríeis | tocariam |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | toque | toques | toque | toquemos | toqueis | toquem |
Imperfect | tocasse | tocasses | tocasse | tocássemos | tocásseis | tocassem |
Future | tocar | tocares | tocar | tocarmos | tocardes | tocarem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | toca | toque | toquemos | tocai | toquem | |
Negative (não) | não toques | não toque | não toquemos | não toqueis | não toquem |
1Brazilian Portuguese.
2European Portuguese.
Quotations
editFor quotations using this term, see Citations:tocar.
Derived terms
edit- tocar no assunto (idiomatic)
- tocante
Descendants
edit- Macanese: tocâ
Further reading
edit- “tocar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tocar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “tocar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Verb
edittocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toqué, past participle tocado)
- (transitive) to touch
- Toca esta tela. ― Touch this cloth.
- (transitive) to play (a musical instrument)
- Ella toca el piano. ― She plays the piano.
- (impersonal, intransitive) to be someone's time or turn
- (impersonal, intransitive) to have to do something, be obligated to do
- Le tocó aprender hebreo. ― She had to learn Hebrew.
- (transitive) to knock
- tocar la puerta ― to knock on the door
- (transitive) to honk
- tocar la bocina ― to honk the horn
- (transitive) to ring
- tocar un timbre ― to ring a doorbell
- (transitive) to touch on (mention briefly)
- Vamos a tocar el tema de las finanzas personales. ― We're going to touch on the topic of personal finance.
- (intransitive) to touch (affect emotionally)
- Sinceramente la película me tocó. ― To be honest, the movie [deeply] touched me.
- (transitive, baseball) to bunt
Conjugation
editinfinitive | tocar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | tocando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | tocado | tocada | |||||
plural | tocados | tocadas | |||||
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 | toco | tocastú tocásvos |
toca | tocamos | tocáis | tocan | |
imperfect | tocaba | tocabas | tocaba | tocábamos | tocabais | tocaban | |
preterite | toqué | tocaste | tocó | tocamos | tocasteis | tocaron | |
future | tocaré | tocarás | tocará | tocaremos | tocaréis | tocarán | |
conditional | tocaría | tocarías | tocaría | tocaríamos | tocaríais | tocarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | toque | toquestú toquésvos2 |
toque | toquemos | toquéis | toquen | |
imperfect (ra) |
tocara | tocaras | tocara | tocáramos | tocarais | tocaran | |
imperfect (se) |
tocase | tocases | tocase | tocásemos | tocaseis | tocasen | |
future1 | tocare | tocares | tocare | tocáremos | tocareis | tocaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | tocatú tocávos |
toque | toquemos | tocad | toquen | ||
negative | no toques | no toque | no toquemos | no toquéis | no toquen |
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom toca (“headscarf, wimple, kind of hat”).
Verb
edittocar (first-person singular present toco, first-person singular preterite toqué, past participle tocado)
- to comb or dress one's hair
- to don a hat, scarf or other head covering
Conjugation
editinfinitive | tocar | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gerund | tocando | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | tocado | tocada | |||||
plural | tocados | tocadas | |||||
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 | toco | tocastú tocásvos |
toca | tocamos | tocáis | tocan | |
imperfect | tocaba | tocabas | tocaba | tocábamos | tocabais | tocaban | |
preterite | toqué | tocaste | tocó | tocamos | tocasteis | tocaron | |
future | tocaré | tocarás | tocará | tocaremos | tocaréis | tocarán | |
conditional | tocaría | tocarías | tocaría | tocaríamos | tocaríais | tocarían | |
subjunctive | yo | tú vos |
él/ella/ello usted |
nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ellos/ellas ustedes | |
present | toque | toquestú toquésvos2 |
toque | toquemos | toquéis | toquen | |
imperfect (ra) |
tocara | tocaras | tocara | tocáramos | tocarais | tocaran | |
imperfect (se) |
tocase | tocases | tocase | tocásemos | tocaseis | tocasen | |
future1 | tocare | tocares | tocare | tocáremos | tocareis | tocaren | |
imperative | — | tú vos |
usted | nosotros nosotras |
vosotros vosotras |
ustedes | |
affirmative | tocatú tocávos |
toque | toquemos | tocad | toquen | ||
negative | no toques | no toque | no toquemos | no toquéis | no toquen |
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
edit- tocador (“dressing table”)
Further reading
edit- “tocar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
editVenetian
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre, of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin.
Verb
edittocar
- (transitive) to touch
Conjugation
edit- Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | tocar | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
auxiliary verb | aver | gerund | tocando | |||
past participle | tocà | |||||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | toco | (te) tochi | (el/ła) toca | tochémo, tocòn | toché | (i/łe) toca |
imperfect | tocava | (te) tocavi | (el/ła) tocava | tocàvimo | tocavi | (i/łe) tocava |
future | tocarò | (te) tocarè | (el/ła) tocarà | tocarémo | tocarè | (i/łe) tocarà |
conditional | mi | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
present | tocarìa | (te) tocarisi | (el/ła) tocarìa | tocarìsimo | tocarisi | (i/łe) tocarìa |
subjunctive | che mi | che ti | che eło / eła | che noialtri / noialtre | che voialtri / voialtre | che łuri / łore |
present | toche, toca | (te) tochi | (el/ła) toche, (el/ła) toca | tochémo, tocone | toché | (i/łe) toche, (i/łe) toca |
imperfect | tocase | (te) tocasi | (el/ła) tocase | tocàsimo | tocasi | (i/łe) tocase |
imperative | — | ti | eło / eła | noialtri / noialtre | voialtri / voialtre | łuri / łore |
— | (te) toca | (el/ła) toca, (el/ła) toche | tochémo | toché | (i/łe) toca, (i/łe) toche |
Synonyms
edit- Aragonese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Aragonese terms derived from Germanic languages
- Aragonese onomatopoeias
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- Rhymes:Aragonese/a(ɾ)
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- Aragonese lemmas
- Aragonese verbs
- Aragonese transitive verbs
- Asturian terms derived from Frankish
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- Asturian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Asturian terms derived from Germanic languages
- Asturian onomatopoeias
- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Asturian/aɾ
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- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian verbs
- Catalan terms derived from Frankish
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Germanic languages
- Catalan onomatopoeias
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- Rhymes:Catalan/a(ɾ)
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- Catalan lemmas
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- Catalan first conjugation verbs
- Catalan verbs with c-qu alternation
- Galician terms derived from Frankish
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- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms derived from Germanic languages
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- Rhymes:Galician/aɾ
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- Galician lemmas
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- Galician verbs ending in -ar
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- Galician terms with quotations
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- Galician impersonal verbs
- Occitan terms derived from Frankish
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- es:Baseball
- Venetian terms derived from Frankish
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- Venetian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
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