concurrir

Borrowed from Latin concurrere.

• IPA^(key): /konkuˈriɾ/ [kõŋ.kuˈriɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: con‧cu‧rrir

concurrir (first-person singular present concurro, first-person singular preterite concurrí, past participle concurrido)

1. (intransitive) to converge, co-occur

   concurrir a un sitio ― to flock somewhere

   • 1978, Margarita Vilaró de Morgan, Memorias de una escuela rural:

     Comenzaron a concurrir veinte alumnos, cuyas edades oscilaban entre nueve y quince años.

     Twenty students began to flock, whose ages ranged from nine to fifteen years.

2. (intransitive) to take part (in)

   concurrir a la campaña electoral

   take part in the election campaign

   • 2015 July 15, “Margallo advierte a Mas de que puede perder la credibilidad”, in El País‎^[1]:

     García-Margallo ha hecho estas declaraciones en RNE en el día en el que los líderes de CDC y ERC, Artur Mas y Oriol Junqueras, así como representantes de las entidades soberanistas, comparecen previsiblemente para explicar el preacuerdo firmado para concurrir en una lista conjunta el 27-S.

     García-Margallo has made these statements on RNE on the day that the leaders of the CDC and ERC, Artur Mas and Oriol Junqueras, as well as representatives of the sovereignist entities, will appear in order to explain the pre-agreement signed to take part in a joint list on September 27.

3. (intransitive) to coincide
4. (intransitive) to have/hold an influence (over)
5. (intransitive) to concur; to agree

   concurro contigo en hacerlo

   I concur with you to do it

   • 1887, Bernardino González, Examen critico en el terreno de la filosofía sobre el folleto intitulado:

     ¿Las mujeres que nunca concurren á formar leyes, estarían sujetas á ellas?

     Should women who never concur to pass laws be subject to them?

6. (intransitive) to contribute; chip in (with money, towards a cause)

   concurrir contigo en hacerlo

   I concur with you to do it

   • 2002, José Luis Cea Egaña, Derecho Constitucional chileno:

     Para garantizar el efectivo derecho a la educación, el Estado tiene que concurrir con aportes económicos, o bien, con la creación de establecimientos suyos.

     In order to effectively guarantee education, the state has to contribute economically, or rather, by creating their own establishments.

• “concurrir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28