chegar

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈɡaɾ/ [t͡ʃeˈɣ̞aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: che‧gar

chegar

1. alternative form of llegar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chegar, from Latin plicāre. Cognate with Portuguese chegar and Spanish llegar.

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: che‧gar

chegar (first-person singular present chego, first-person singular preterite cheguei, past participle chegado)

1. (intransitive) to arrive

   Chegaches tarde. ― You arrived late.

2. (intransitive) to reach (to extend to as far as)

   Synonym: alcanzar

   A sombra chegou á parede. ― The shadow reached the wall.

3. (intransitive) to come to, to total, to amount to
4. (intransitive) to suffice

   Synonyms: abastar, abondar

   -Chega? -Chega! ― «Is it enough?» «It is enough!»

   Xa chega de política. ― Enough of politics.

5. (transitive) to bring near

   Synonyms: acercar, achegar, aconchegar, agarimar, arrimar

6. (pronominal) to approach; to draw near

   Synonyms: acercar, achegar, arrimar

   A pota dixo ao caldeiro: Chégate aló que me lixas! ― The pot told the cauldron: «Go there, you're messing me!»

• achegar
• chegada
• chegado
• chegar ben (“to be enough or more than enough”)
• rechegar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chegar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chegar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chegar”, 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), “chegar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chegar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin plicāre.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.ˈɡaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

chegar

1. to arrive

• achegar

• Galician: chegar
• Portuguese: chegar (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "chegar"

• cheguar (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chegar, from Latin plicāre. Compare Galician chegar and Spanish llegar. See also the doublets pregar and plicar.

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• Hyphenation: che‧gar

chegar (first-person singular present chego, first-person singular preterite cheguei, past participle chegado)

2. to arrive (at); to reach (to conclude moving to a destination) [with (Portugal) a or (Brazil) em ‘a destination’]

   Antonyms: sair, partir, ir embora

   Em algumas horas chegaremos em Londres. (Brazil) ― In a few hours we will arrive at London.

   Em algumas horas chegaremos a Londres. (Portugal) ― In a few hours we will arrive at London.

4. (of an event or point in time, intransitive) to arrive (to reach the present time)

   O dia de nossa execução chegou. ― The day of our execution has arrived.

6. to reach (to extend to as far as) [with a or em ‘to’; or with até ‘as far as’]

   A sombra chegou à parede. ― The shadow reached the wall.

8. (intransitive) to come to; to reach (to get to the extreme value of) [with a ‘a measurement’]

   Por causa da chuva, a profundidade do lago chegou a trinta metros. ― Because of the rain, a depth of the lake reached thirty metres.

10. to do an action that is considered extreme; even; to reach the point of [with a (+ infinitive) ‘doing something’]

    Os terroristas chegaram a decapitar os prisioneiros. ― The terrorists even decapitated the prisoners.

12. (intransitive) to suffice (to be enough)

    Synonym: bastar

    A aposentada disse que quinhentos reais não chegam. ― The pensioner said that five hundred reais are not enough.

14. (intransitive, impersonal, auxiliary) indicates that something should be stopped; to be enough [with de ‘of something’; or with de (+ personal infinitive) ‘of doing something’]

    Chega! ― That’s enough!

    Chega de chuva. ― That’s enough rain.

16. (transitive) to bring to (to place something next to)

    Synonyms: acercar, aproximar

    Chega-me essa cadeira, por favor. ― Bring me that chair, please.

18. (pronominal) to approach (to come nearer)

    Synonyms: acercar, aproximar

    Chega-te aqui, temos de falar. ― Come closer, we need to talk.

20. (intransitive) to approach (to deal with something in a particular manner) [with a]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chegar.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tciga, tciganta
• Macanese: chegâ

• “chegar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From cheag +‎ -ar, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *clagorium,^[1] ultimately from Latin coagulum, following metathesis, syncopation, and addition of a suffix. Compare Albanian kljuar.

chegar n (plural chegare)

1. (rare, archaic) a bucket in which milk curdles

• cheag
• închega