🥊Le combat
Combattre, frapper, botter, cogner, gagner — les verbes de la cage et de la rue.
5 concepts
Les colonnes suivent les langues activées en haut. Le genre après le mot (m/f/n) ; l'API en dessous ; les notes, variantes et origines encore en dessous — rien n'est caché.
| Concept | English | Français | Español |
|---|---|---|---|
to fight verb | to fight Irregular: fought /fɔːt/. A fighter fights in a bout; people also 'fight' = argue. | combattre also: se battre (brawl), se disputer (argue) Combattre is the sport and the cause; se battre is a fight in the street. A fighter says 'je combats samedi'. | pelear also: luchar (wrestle, struggle), pelearse (quarrel) Pelear covers the bout; luchar is also wrestling and fighting FOR something. Pelearse con alguien = fall out with them. |
to hit verb | to hit also: to strike Irregular and unchanging: hit, hit, hit. | frapper also: taper (familiar), cogner Also 'to knock' at a door: on frappe. | golpear also: pegar (a person: pegar a alguien) Pegar a alguien = hit someone, but pegar algo = stick or glue it. |
to kick verb | to kick Also kick off (start), kick out (expel), and kick a habit. | botter also: donner un coup de pied (à) French has no neutral one-word verb: botter (le ballon) is familiar; in the gym it's donner un coup de pied, with à for the target. | patear also: dar una patada (a) Patear takes the target directly: patear el balón. Dar una patada a is just as common. |
to punch verb | to punch Also a punch (the drink) and punch a ticket or a hole. | cogner also: donner un coup de poing (à), boxer (familiar) Cogner is to hit hard with the fist, familiar; the neutral phrase is donner un coup de poing à quelqu'un. | dar un puñetazo also: dar puñetazos, golpear con el puño No one-word verb: dar un puñetazo, with a for the target (dar un puñetazo a la bolsa). |
to win verb | to win Win a fight, a prize; BEAT an opponent — 'I won him' is a common slip. Earn = get paid. | gagner Also 'to earn' (gagner sa vie) — one verb where English has win and earn. Battre = beat an opponent. | ganar Also 'to earn' and 'to beat': le gané = I beat him. |