beg
/ˈbɛɡ/ verbo A2En español: mendigar, pordiosear, suplicar, rogar
- To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. · He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
- To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. · I beg your pardon. I didn’t mean to cause offence.· He begged her to go to the prom with him.
- To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction. · The way you keep eating raw meat, you're just begging to get tapeworms.
- To obviously lack or be in need of something. · A captivating novel that just begs for a movie adaptation
- In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
- In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
He/she/it begs · Pasado begged · Participio pasado begged · Forma en -ing begging
Formas del verbo
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
Please don’t,” begged the Tin Woodman.
But if it is the lovely Lady I shall beg hard for a heart, for all ladies are themselves said to be kindly hearted.”
He prayed and supplicated in terms so moving, that even the officer was touched, and, although firm in his duty, he kindly said, “My worthy friend, let me beg of you to calm your apprehensions.
I know she was loaded with cotton, and that she took in her freight at Alexandria from Pastret’s warehouse, and at Smyrna from Pascal’s; that is all I was obliged to know, and I beg I may not be asked for any further particulars.”
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