Meaning of demandar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to look for
   archaic
2. to ask for; to demand
3. to sue
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Logo en canto vosté saíu ó patio a demandar socorro, saíu o defunto da cuba, e ganou a escaleira da trapa, que dá a sala. Dempois en canto os seus sobriños foron xunto de vosté a faguer a comedia de ver o que había na cuba, el visteuse e saíu a campo travesa”

Then, as soon as you left for the yard asking for help, the deceased exited the barrel and came to the stairs of the trapdoor, which opens to the hall. After this, as soon as you nephews went by your side to make the comedy on what was inside the barrel, he got dressed and ran across the open field.

“Non sería quen de acoitelar un home; máis ben o demandaría nun xulgado.”

She would not stab a man; she would sue him in the law courts.

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