caer
Translation
v.
›
⇨ to fall
⇨ to go down
› (lánguidamente)
⇨ to droop
Las flores se caían por el calor The flowers were drooping in the heat
› (las hojas de los árboles, la lluvia o la nieve)
⇨ to come down
La lluvia ha empezado a caer Rain has started to come down
› (una fecha)
⇨ to fall
Mi cumpleaños cae en lunes My birthday falls on a Monday
⇨ to loom
⇨ to be in the offing
› (estar en un lugar)
⇨ to be
¿Por dónde cae ese pueblo? Do you know where that village is?
› (en economía)
⇨ to slump
› (un precio)
⇨ to fall back
› (llegar a entender) (col.)
⇨ to get
No caigo I don't get it
⇨ to click inform
⇨ to cotton on uk inform
›Tus amigos no me caen bien
I don't like your friends
› (en una trampa, en un engaño)
⇨ to fall for sth
Me dijo que tenía una casa en España y caí He told me he owned a mansion in Spain and I fell for it
› (en un estado de ánimo)
⇨ to lapse into
caer en el aburrimiento to lapse into boredom
caer bien a alguien
⇨ to take a shine to sb
dejar caer (un objeto)
⇨ to drop
(Definition of caer v. from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact Español-Inglés
© Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)
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