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pay

/peɪ/ verbo A1

En español: pagar, cashquear, garpar, costear

  1. To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. · pay cash or pay in cash, pay by credit/debit card· pay in dollars/euros, etc.
  2. To deposit into an account. (intransitive, transitive) · I pay a portion of each paycheck into a savings account.
  3. To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. · to pay compensation, to pay a fine· She offered to pay the bill.
  4. To be profitable; to be worth it. (intransitive, transitive) · It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.· Crime doesn’t pay.
  5. To cover, as a cost. (intransitive) · Those investments paid for her college education.
  6. To yield as a benefit. (transitive) · to pay dividends; to pay interest· You will get paid from this investment yearly.
  7. To give (something else than money). (transitive) · to pay attention, to pay tribute, to pay a visit
  8. To suffer consequences, especially justly. (intransitive) · He paid for his fun in the sun with a terrible sunburn.

Plural pay · He/she/it pays · Pasado paid · Participio pasado paid · Forma en -ing paying

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Formas del verbo

Forma base
pay
He/she/it
pays
Pasado
paid
Participio pasado
paid
Forma en -ing
paying

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De la biblioteca

In this country everyone must pay for everything he gets.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 69 · B2
Mercédès, however, paid no heed to this explanation of her lover’s arrest.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 35 · C1
“No, sir; I have all my pay to take—nearly three months’ wages.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 9 · C1
At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 64 · B2

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