poner
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Meanings
Verb
1. to put, to place (cause to assume a specified position) (transitive or ditransitive, transitive)
2. to write (transitive)
3. to type (with a keyboard, etc.), (with a dative object) to send (transitive)
4. to attach, to assign (also in an abstract sense) (transitive or ditransitive, transitive)
5. to give, to provide (transitive or ditransitive, transitive)
6. (transitive) to put (cause to assume a specified state), (reflexive) to become, to get, to put oneself in a specified state (with adjectives that use estar or verbs)
7. to pay (attention) (ditransitive)
8. to prepare (transitive)
9. to turn on, activate (an appliance, light, a mechanism, a functionality etc.). (transitive or reflexive, transitive)
10. to play, put on (a recording, a song, a video etc.), put, display (an image) (transitive)
11. to lay (eggs) (transitive)
12. (of something on which something is written) to say, to read (indicate in written form) (transitive, optionally impersonal)
13. to name, to give a nickname (ditransitive)
14. to put on, to don, to change into (clothing, shoes, accoutrements) (transitive or reflexive, transitive)
15. (of a heavenly body) to set (i.e., to sink beneath the horizon) (reflexive)
16. to start doing something, to begin, to get down to (reflexive)
17. to turn on, make horny (Spain, colloquial, transitive)
Examples2198
I will name him Rodrigo.
I put the boy to work.
Let me give you an example.
Put these numbers in order from least to greatest.
Put your name on the paper.
What time does the sun set?