escribir
Meanings
Verb
1. to write (to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate) (intransitive or transitive, intransitive, transitive)
2. to write (to) someone (a letter, etc.) (intransitive or transitive, intransitive, transitive)
3. to write someone something (transitive or ditransitive, transitive)
4. to write (to be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.)) (transitive)
5. to write (to be an author) (intransitive)
6. to type (on a phone or computer keyboard) (intransitive or transitive, intransitive, transitive)
7. to text (transitive or ditransitive, transitive)
8. to chat regularly with someone on social media (colloquial, reflexive)
Examples1504
Me escribo con uno del Barça.
I chat with someone from Barça.
Luego te escribo un mensaje.
I'll send you a message later.
Escríbele una carta a Papá Noel.
Write a letter to Santa Claus.
¿Cómo se escribe tu apellido?
How do you spell your last name? (literally "How is your last name written?", using a pasiva refleja, see https://www.rae.es/gram%C3%A1tica/sintaxis/la-pasiva-refleja-i-caracter%C3%ADsticas-fundamentales)
Cervantes escribió el Quijote a comienzos del siglo XVII.
Cervantes wrote Don Quijote at the beginning of the 17th century.
Ella escribe todas sus ideas en un cuaderno.
She writes all her ideas in a notebook.