speak

Inglés

speak

• Pronunciación:  / spiːk / (AFI)

• EEUU
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• Etimología: del inglés medio speken, con el mismo significado, y este del antiguo specan, síncopa de sprecan, del protogermánico *sprekaną, del protoindoeuropeo *(s)preg-. Compárese el frisón sprekke, el neerlandés spreken, el afrikaans spreek, el alemán sprechen o el sueco språka, este último tomado del bajo sajón; no hay registro de cognados nativos en gótico o nórdico antiguo

Traducciones

Verbo intransitivo

1ª persona	3ª persona	Pasado	Participio pasado	Gerundio
speak	speaks	spoke	spoken	speaking

1

Hablar

2

Decir

3

Conversar

Verbo transitivo

1ª persona	3ª persona	Pasado	Participio pasado	Gerundio
speak	speaks	spoke	spoken	speaking

4

Hablar un idioma

5

Enunciar, pronunciar, articular palabra

6

Por extensión, indicar, comunicar

7

Recitar

Sustantivo

Singular	Plural
speak	speaks

8

Jerga

Compuestos

• speak-a-word room
• speak-back
• speak-box
• speak-out
• speak-room
• speak-truth
• speak-your-weight machine

Locuciones

speak a good word for speak against speak down speak fair speak for speak for itself speak for oneself speak for yourself speak forth speak highly of speak ill of speak in tongues speak not a word of speak of speak of the devil speak on speak one's mind speak out

speak out in meeting speak over speak past speak to speak together speak unto speak up speak upon speak volumes speak with speaking spoken for actions speak louder than words as they speak not to be spoken of nothing to speak of on speaking terms so to speak