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pillar

/piˈʝaɾ/, [piˈʝaɾ], /piˈʝaɾ/, [piˈʝaɾ]

catch, tag

Gerund: pillando

Past Participles

  Masculine Feminine
Singular pillado pillada
Plural pillados pilladas

Indicative

  Present Imperfect Preterite Future Conditional
yo pillo pillaba pillé pillaré pillaría
tú pillas pillabas pillaste pillarás pillarías
él/ella/Ud. pilla pillaba pilló pillará pillaría
nosotros pillamos pillábamos pillamos pillaremos pillaríamos
vosotros pilláis pillabais pillasteis pillaréis pillaríais
ellos/ellas/Uds. pillan pillaban pillaron pillarán pillarían
vos pillás pillabas pillaste pillarás pillarías

Subjunctive

  Present Imperfect (ra) Imperfect (se) Future
yo pille pillara pillase pillare
tú pilles pillaras pillases pillares
él/ella/Ud. pille pillara pillase pillare
nosotros pillemos pilláramos pillásemos pilláremos
vosotros pilléis pillarais pillaseis pillareis
ellos/ellas/Uds. pillen pillaran pillasen pillaren
vos pillés pillaras pillases pillares

Imperative

  Affirmative Negative
yo    
tú pilla no pilles
Ud. pille no pille
nosotros pillemos no pillemos
vosotros pillad no pilléis
Uds. pillen no pillen
vos pillá no pilles

Source: Wiktionary available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Examples

  • Al ser extranjero, no pude pillar el chiste.

    Being a foreigner, I couldn't catch on to the joke.

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  • Pillar como pillar puede.

    Catch as catch can.

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  • Nada puede pillar por sorpresa a un estadounidense. A menudo se ha dicho que la palabra "imposible" no era francesa. Obviamente, la gente miró en el diccionario equivocado. En Estados Unidos, todo es fácil, todo es simple y las dificultades mecánicas se solucionan antes de surgir.

    Nothing can take an American by surprise. It has often been said that the word "impossible" was not a French one. People have obviously looked in the wrong dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple and mechanical difficulties are overcome before they arise.

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  • Ella no sale de la habitación, porque no quiere pillar otro resfriado.

    She won't leave the room, because she doesn't want to catch another cold.

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