Meaning of escoitar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to listen, to pay attention
2. to listen while hidden

Equivalents

Examples

“Fala o corvo, escoiten todos: Eu veño con asas negras Cortando os ventos de lonxe”

The crow speaks, "everybody, listen to me: I've come with black wings cutting the wind from far away"

“En escoitalo, señor tio Calacú, xà o peléxo do meu corpo tembra. Sei que á tanta agua que acarrexóu amolentoulle os miolos, é por eso louquéa”

While listening to you, my sir uncle Pumpkin, my body's skin trembles. Perhaps the much water you have carried softened you brain, and therefore you are going insane

“he/she who skulks should hear bad thing about himself/herself”

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