What is tocar? tocar is play
What is play?
- Palpar amb les mans: no toquis la cassola que crema.
Feel with your hands: touch not the burning pan.
- Posar en contacte amb les mans o una altra part del cos: va tocar el llibre.
Contact with your hands or any other part of the body: was the book.
- Fregar o estar en contacte una cosa amb una altra: el respatller de la cadira toca la paret.
Rub or be in touch something with another: the backrest of the Chair up the wall.
- Fer sonar un instrument musical: toques molt bé el piano.
Make a musical instrument sound: you play the piano very well.
- Executar o interpretar una peça musical: l'orquestra tocava la nostra cançó.
Perform or perform a piece of music: the orchestra played our song.
- Alterar o modificar alguna cosa per tal de millorar-la: no toquis més l'escrit que l'espatllaràs. sin: retocar
Alter or modify something to improve it: do not touch the writing that you will spoil it anymore. sin: tweak
- Fer sonar alguna cosa, generalment per cridar o avisar algú: les campanes toquen a missa.
Ringing something, usually to shout or warn someone: bells ring at mass.
- Tractar un assumpte o parlar-ne sense aprofundir-hi: avui tocarem el tema que ahir va quedar pendent.
Dealing with a matter or talking about it without going into depth: today we will touch on the topic that was pending yesterday.
- Parlar d'algú d'una manera que el pot ofendre o molestar: digues el que vulguis però la meva mare ni la toquis!
Talking about someone in a way that might offend or upset them: say whatever you want but my mom doesn't even touch her!
- Moure alguna cosa del seu lloc: qui ha tocat els papers de damunt la taula?
Move something from its place: who touched the papers on the table?
- Haver arribat el moment de fer alguna cosa: avui em toca rentar la roba.
It's time to do something: today it's my turn to wash my clothes.
- Ser obligatòria alguna cosa per algú o ser de la seva responsabilitat: et toca pagar el dinar a tu. sin: pertocar
Being obligatory for someone or being their responsibility: it's up to you to pay for lunch. Sin: Belong
- Correspondre a algú una cosa que es reparteix: li ha tocat la loteria. sin: pertocar
Correspond to someone something that is distributed: they have won the lottery. Sin: Belong
- tocar-se Estar una cosa molt a prop d'una altra: la plaça i l'estació es toquen.
touch each other Be one thing very close to another: the square and the station touch.
- Tornar-se algú boig: pobre, s'ha ben tocat!
Going mad: poor thing, it's been well touched!