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cost

/kɔst/ verbo A2

En español: costar

  1. To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. (transitive) · This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.· It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
  2. To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. (transitive) · Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
  3. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
  4. To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering. (colloquial, transitive) · I can give you the names, but it'll cost you.· That's going to cost you!

He/she/it costs · Pasado cost · Participio pasado cost · Forma en -ing costing

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Formas del verbo

Forma base
cost
He/she/it
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Pasado
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Participio pasado
cost
Forma en -ing
costing

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Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana’s important communication within the limits of ten minutes.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 144 · C1
Charlie Sloane’s slate pencil, gorgeously bedizened with striped red and yellow paper, costing two cents where ordinary pencils cost only one, which he sent up to her after dinner hour, met with a more favorable reception.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 128 · C1
Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 62 · B2
It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly filled a shelf with my writings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 14 · B2

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