chegar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chegar, from Latin plicāre, present active infinitive of plicō. Cognate with Portuguese chegar and Spanish llegar.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈɣaɾ/

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)

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

   Synonym: alcanzar

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

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

   Xa chega de politica. ― Enough of politics.

   Synonyms: abastar, abondar

5. (transitive) to bring near

   Synonyms: acercar, achegar, aconchegar, agarimar, arrimar

6. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to approach; to draw near
7. A pota dixo ao caldeiro: Chégate aló que me lixas! ― The pot told the cauldron: «Go there, you're messing me!»

   Synonyms: acercar, achegar, arrimar

• Note: cheg- are changed to chegu- before front vowels (e).

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

• “chegar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chegar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “chegar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chegar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chegar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• cheguar (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese chegar, inherited from Latin plicō. Compare Spanish llegar. See also the doublet pregar.

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɨˈɣaɾ], [t͡ʃɨˈɣa.ɾɨ]
• Hyphenation: che‧gar

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

1. (intransitive, or transitive with a or em) to arrive (at); to reach (to conclude moving to a destination)

   Antonyms: sair, partir, ir embora

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

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

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

   O dia de nossa execução chega amanhã. ― The day of our execution arrives tomorrow.

3. (transitive with a or em or até) to reach (to extend to as far as)

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

4. (transitive with a) to come to; to reach (to get to the extreme value of)

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

5. (auxiliary with a and a verb in the impersonal infinitive) to do an action that is considered extreme; even; to reach the point of

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

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

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

7. (impersonal, transitive or intransitive, or auxiliary with de and a verb in the personal infinitive) indicates that something should be stopped; to be enough

   Chega! ― That’s enough!

   Chega de corrermos. ― We have ran enough.

   Chega de chuva. ― That’s enough rain.

8. (transitive) to bring to (to place something next to)
9. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to approach (to come nearer)
10. (transitive with a) to approach (to deal with something in a particular manner)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chegar.

• (suffice): bastar
• (bring near): acercar, aproximar
• (approach): acercar-se, aproximar-se

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