# llegar
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʎeˈɡaɾ/ [ʎeˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: lle‧gar

### Verb

llegar (first-person singular indicative present llego, past participle llegáu)
* Alternative form of allegar

#### Conjugation
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin legāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ʎəˈɣa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ʎeˈɣaɾ]

### Verb

llegar (first-person singular present llego, first-person singular preterite lleguí, past participle llegat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* to hand down, to pass down

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “llegar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Old Irish
### Verb

llegar
* Alternative spelling of legar when unlenited

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin plicāre (“to fold”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”). The semantic shift over time from "to fold" is also found in some other Romance cognates, and may be linked to the idea of folding sails when arriving at a port, especially in Iberian Romance where naval tradition was strong. Compare Portuguese chegar; however compare also Romanian pleca (“to leave”), with the opposite meaning, possibly because there the word was associated with folding up tents and leaving. See also the Spanish doublet plegar (“to fold”). Another theory instead derives llegar from a Vulgar Latin plicāre as a regressive derivation from Classical Latin applicāre (“apply, add, attach, join to”). Cognate with English ply.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʝeˈɡaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈɣ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝeˈɡaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈɣ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ʎeˈɡaɾ/ [ʎeˈɣ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃeˈɡaɾ/ [ʃeˈɣ̞aɾ]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒeˈɡaɾ/ [ʒeˈɣ̞aɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: lle‧gar

### Verb

llegar (first-person singular present llego, first-person singular preterite llegué, past participle llegado)
* (intransitive) to arrive, get (to)
    Cuando llegues a casa, mándame un mensaje.When you get home, send me a message.
** 2015 July 5, “Cocodrilos, ¡a desayunar!”, in El País‎:Tratad de llegadme enteros que faltan más de tres semanas y os he traído aquí porque os necesito.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (intransitive) to get up to, to go up to, to reach (+ a or + hasta)
    Llegué a la cima de la montaña.I got up to the top of the mountain.
* (intransitive) to be sufficient; to be enough
    Un solo día no llega para visitar todos los museos.A single day is not enough to visit all the museums.
* (intransitive) to manage (be successful)
    no llegué a conseguir el trabajoI didn't manage to get the job.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Antonyms

* salir, partir

#### Derived terms

* hacer llegar
* llegar a fin de mes
* llegar a la suela del zapato
* llegar a las manos
* llegar a ser
* llegar a tener (“to get to have”)
* llegar al llegadero
* llegar lejos
* llegar tarde
* llegar y besar el santo
* llegarle
* no llegar la sangre al río

#### Related terms

* llegada
* llegado
* plegar

#### Descendants

* → Sicilian: agghicari

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “llegar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “llegar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10