stick
/stɪk/ verbo B1En español: pegar, pegarse, atascarse, permanecer
- To become or remain attached; to adhere. · The tape will not stick if it melts.
- To jam; to stop moving. · The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To persist. · His old nickname stuck.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm. · Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
- To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
- To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
He/she/it sticks · Pasado stuck · Participio pasado stuck · Forma en -ing sticking
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
- stuck
- Participio pasado
- stuck
- Forma en -ing
- sticking
Un verbo irregular: apréndete de memoria su pasado y su participio pasado.
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall.
“There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.”
There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.
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