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University of Vigo

English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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In Galician
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- border, borderless, borderline, bore, bored, boredom, boring, born, borough, borrow, borrowing, Bosnia, Bosnian, bosom, Bosphorus, boss, botanic, botanical, botanist


borrow


- transitive verb
- tomar emprestado

EN And after each trip among the neighbors Juan Tomás came back with something borrowed.
GL E despois de cada rolda que facía entre os veciños, Juan Tomás regresaba con algo emprestado.
- Fonte: PER (1186)
- coller prestado

EN And long before this appropriation is fixed and petrified, as it were, into the acknowledged vocabulary of the language, an insensible clinamen (to borrow a Lucretian word) prepares the way for it.
GL E antes de que esta apropiación estea fixada e petrificada, coma se fose, no vocabulario recoñecido da lingua, un insensible clinamen (para coller prestada unha palabra de Lucrecio) prepáralle o camiño.
- Fonte: LET (613)
- coller emprestado

EN He borrowed a cup of dried peppers and a block of salt, and he brought in a long working knife, eighteen inches long and heavy, as a small ax, a tool and a weapon.
GL Colleu emprestada unha cunca de pementos secos e unha pedra de sal, e trouxo un gran coitelo de traballo de dezaoito polgadas de longo, pesado coma unha pequena brosa, ferramenta e arma a un tempo.
- Fonte: PER (1188)
- tomar

EN In France, the 1994 "Toubon Law" was an attempt to regulate the use of French by resisting the use of words borrowed from other languages.
GL En Francia, a lei de 4 de agosto de 1944 (chamada "lei Toubon") intentou regulamenta-lo emprego do francés loitando contra os termos tomados doutros idiomas.
- Fonte: C09 (562)
- pedir prestado

EN "I borrow money from my sisters who are laundresses in a hotel in Nanchang," she says.
GL "Pido prestado ás miñas irmás, que lavan roupa nun hotel de Nanchang", precisa.
- Fonte: C30 (614)
- pedir un crédito

EN We can't go to the police, or borrow money from the bank or anything.
GL Algúns non podemos ir á poli, non podemos pedir un crédito no banco, non podemos elixir...
- Fonte: C04 (961)