bregar

Catalan

Etymology

From Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, to break), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

Pronunciation

Verb

bregar (first-person singular present brego, first-person singular preterite breguí, past participle bregat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencian) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

  1. (intransitive) to fight, to struggle
  2. (transitive) to scrub
  3. (transitive) to brake (to crush the stems of flax or hemp in order to separate the fibers)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

From Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (brikan, to break), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɾeˈɡaɾ/ [bɾeˈɣ̞aɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: bre‧gar

Verb

bregar (first-person singular present brego, first-person singular preterite bregué, past participle bregado)

  1. to toil, struggle
  2. (literary) to fight
  3. (Puerto Rico) to deal with

Conjugation

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Further reading

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