# coger
## English
### Noun

coger (plural cogers)
* Obsolete form of codger.
** 1851, Carpet-bag: A Literary Journal, volume 1:Well, thought her parents and the neighbors, the old coger is going to do the handsome thing for little Sally, perhaps when she gets married, in the shape of a nice fit-out; he may give her a snug little cottage, who knows […]

#### References

* John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

### Anagrams

* Crego, Greco-, Groce, gorce

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* cojer (have sex, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Cognate with Portuguese colher, French cueillir, Sicilian cògghiri, and also with English cull, coil, college, and collect. Compare also the borrowed doublet colegir.
Not related to Latin cōgere, coagere (“to assemble”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈxeɾ/ [koˈxeɾ]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: co‧ger

### Verb

coger (first-person singular present cojo, first-person singular preterite cogí, past participle cogido)
* (Colombia, Caribbean, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Spain) to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
    Synonyms: agarrarse, tomar, prender, asir
* to pick, harvest
    Synonyms: cosechar, recolectar
* to fish
    Synonyms: pescar, atrapar
* to seize, arrest; to overtake
    Synonyms: atrapar, aprehender, capturar
* to get (a joke)
* to collect
    Synonym: colectar
* (vulgar, Rioplatense, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela, Central America, Dominican Republic) to have sex, to fuck, to bang
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joder
* (Spain) to imitate, learn
* (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
* (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)
    Synonym: dar vuelta
* (Spain) to board (means of transportation)
    Tengo que coger el tren.I have a train to catch.

#### Usage notes

Because of the vulgar association, coger is best avoided in Latin America. Alternatives include recoger, agarrar, or tomar, depending on the context.

#### 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.

#### Derived terms

* antecoger
* antes se coge al mentiroso que al cojo
* cogedero
* cogedizo
* cogedor
* cogedura
* coger al paso
* coger el portante
* coger el sol
* coger el teléfono
* coger en medio
* coger la calle
* coger la delantera
* coger la palabra
* coger las palabras
* coger los pasos
* coger por sorpresa
* coger una liebre
* cogérsela con papel de fumar
* cogida
* sobrecoger

#### Related terms

* acoger
* colecta
* colectar
* colegio
* colegir
* cosecha
* escoger
* recoger

### Further reading

* “coger”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* “coger”, 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

### Anagrams

* greco