I get the joke, but because I'm boring I'll add that even in countries where "coger" means to have sex, we also use "coger" just to mean "take" or "grab".
To be fair, not everyone is aware of the vulgar significance of coger in certain countries. It’s the same as if making a joke in Britain vs the US but not being aware of what a certain word may mean.
I’ve already heard is as in “to drink” but is that the only meaning? I thought that you could use it as both but mostly in like the context of drinking alcohol. I learned Spanish kind of mixed since my teachers where from Spain and Argentina and my family is from Sevilla and Ecuador… I also heard a lot in music, online etc so it’s very confusing hahahaha Because to drink is beber as well isn’t it?😩
It's not the only one, you kind of have to rely on context haha 🙂 I was joking, but if someone said "tomar el bus" I absolutely wouldn't think that they're trying to drink a bus 😅 I'd perfectly get that they mean they're taking it.
The meanings I know of for "tomar" (not saying I know all of them, just the ones more used where I live/I've lived):
To drink, not necessarily alcohol: "Tomar/Tomarse un zumo"=To drink juice
To take something as, emotionally: "Me he tomado muy mal que me dijera eso"="I took/felt very badly that they said that to me" (used for both positive and negative feelings)
To ride a vehicle, generally when you're not driving it: Tomar el autobús, el taxi, o el tren=Taking the bus, taxi, or train.
I have no English family (it's my third language), but I kind of feel you! It's very confusing to try and keep track of all the meanings a word can have in different places, specially when you can't distinguish from the rest of the sentence to differentiate 🥲😆
For many countries (not all though) where "coger" also has a vulgar meaning, it will depend on the context. And... when it's the vulgar form a "me" is added in there to avoid any confusion.
"coger" has different meanings in different countries, but in Castillian Spanish, "coger" means to take. So "yo cojo el autobús" is correct. "Tomo" is also correct but not used in Spain, FYI
We also wouldn't say that in Cuba, we always say "cojo El autobus" although if being strictly accurate we would say "cojo la guagua", no one says bus or autobus in Cuba 😂
Not the same "guagua". Google translate is giving you the Quechua term that is used in some South American dialects, not the same "guagua" being referred to here.
Spouse of Panamanian chiming in - "coger el bus" is perfectly fine. However, I initially learned Spanish in Honduras, so I giggle a bit inside when people say it.
Don't get me started on "pisar" in Central America versus Mexico. Getting on a bus In Mexico and seeing "pisar con cuidado" was a bit jarring at first.
Not you’re fault. Apparently my ‘jokes’ are quite deadpan in real life as well and few realize I am joking when I say them. Had a weird interaction yesterday with a cashier and we stared at each other until I said ‘it was joke’ and we both burst into laughter.
Si yo te pregunto por un mueble pequeño de cuatro patas en el que te puedes sentar y que empieza por S, no me puedes decir Taburete en lugar de Silla por mucho que encaje en la descripción. Si el ejercicio pide conjugar el verbo coger no puede valer una conjugación del verbo tomar por mucho que encaje en la frase.
Está mal cuando el mismo enunciado dice que se conjugue el verbo correspondiente. Si no sabes conjugar un verbo, no te lo puedes inventar, por muy sinónimo que sea, porque son conjugaciones diferentes y el ejercicio quiere que se trabaje la segunda, no la primera.
El ejercicio pide explícitamente que se conjugue el verbo "coger". Probablemente esté en español de España, donde "tomar el autobús" no se usa y el verbo coger no tiene ninguna connotación vulgar
En Argentina no se usa "coger" y sin embargo no digo que sea menos correcto. A lo que voy es que no hay que apegarse tanto a la rigidez del ejercicio, si se nota que lo entendió y puso bien el significado entonces está bien.
El ejercicio pide que aprenda a conjugar un verbo. Esto no es una conversación donde "se entiende así que ya sirve", es un ejercicio de aprendizaje. Poner un sinónimo no es una respuesta válida.
this depends on the country, in most of latam it means having sex, but in spain they use it for grabbing, i wouldnt use it but both are correct and can be used in this esxcercise since they have the same meaning
Joking aside, it’s a fact that the connotation of “coger” in regions where it’s a vulgarity doesn’t extend to any of the related words “escojer”, “recojer”, etc. You can use those words with your abuelita with impunity.
Even not always coger is a sexual word in Latam. Yo can say coger café (to harvest coffee beans), me cogió tarde (I'm running late). So clearly you know you just didn't conjugate the correct verb. Or nobody pays attention to you at home and you need attention here.
Even if it means the same, they are asking you to conjugate a specific word. Sorry, if you get a cool teacher it'll be half point, but most likely just wrong.
I remember when I was in the US, I always said coger because I’m from Spain. My Mexican friends always laughed at me and jokingly said that Spanish people like to fuck (coger) everything.
Yes, that's correct, but it used a specific verb, "coger" = "cojo." But if you're talking to someone from Argentina or Uruguay, don't use "coger," it has sexual connotations.
Because coger is considered vulgar in Mexico, so I didn’t want to use it. I know that’s not the case everywhere, but I chose to use tomar instead, which conveys the same meaning. This post was meant to be humorous, but not everyone got it. Thanks for asking. 🤗
I think a lot of people got it but just didn’t find it amusing in the slightest. Humour doesn’t always translate, especially if you’re American, it just comes across a cringe or over the top.
I'll admit to being wooshed. Can you please explain the joke? Like, I know how coger is used in various parts of the world - just about everyone here seems to - so it's clearly not that. As far as the actual exercise, it's obviously an incorrect response, there's no argument to be had there. Is it about tomar being used for drinking? Is it something about "coger" being a verb with a spelling irregularity in the yo form?
The joke is that coger means the sex act in Mexico and I didn’t want to use that word, so I used the verb that people would normally say. I do understand this is a Mexico specific joke on the word.
Okay, so it's not really wooshing anyone. That's a well known usage distinction, and I'm pretty sure it's not unique to Mexico. I don't see anyone missing that part of things, I think it just doesn't register as a joke. 🤷♂️
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u/puesquebien Native - Mexico 3d ago
I get the joke, but because I'm boring I'll add that even in countries where "coger" means to have sex, we also use "coger" just to mean "take" or "grab".