arreglar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

arreglar (first-person singular present arreglo, first-person singular preterite arreglí, past participle arreglat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /e/

1. to regulate
2. to arrange
3. to fix, mend

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

From a- +‎ regla +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /areˈɡlaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧rre‧glar

Verb

arreglar (first-person singular present arreglo, first-person singular preterite arreglé, past participle arreglado)

1. to fix, to repair, to mend
   • 2019 November 17, Manuel Viejo, ““No soy racista, voto a Vox porque primero hay que arreglar tu país””, in El País‎:

     E insiste: “No soy racista ni nada de eso, pero primero hay que arreglar tu propio país. Nada más”.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to settle, to sort, to sort out, to patch up, to solve
3. to straighten out, to fix up, to tidy, to tidy up, to clean up
4. to arrange
5. to adjust
6. (reflexive) to get ready
7. (reflexive) to get by, to make do, to manage
8. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to work out, to straighten out

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “arreglar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014