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talk1

UK: /tɔːk/ US: /tɑːk/

Translation

v [i]
hablar
She was talking to me when the telephone rang
Me estaba hablando cuando el teléfono sonó
constr. to talk (to/with sb) about sth
to talk down to sb to talk sb into (doing) sth to talk sb out (doing) sth to talk sth over [m]Véase tb: to talk at cross purposes; to talk big; to talk nonsense
(Definition of talk v from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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