cargar

• carregar

From Old Galician-Portuguese carregar, cargar, from Late Latin carricāre (“load”, verb), from Latin carrus (“car, wagon”), from Gaulish.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈɣaɾ/

cargar (first-person singular present cargo, first-person singular preterite carguei, past participle cargado)

1. to carry
2. to load (put wares into a vehicle or an animal)
3. to burden
4. to lean
5. (computing) to load (load a software into the primary memory)

• cargadoiro
• cargamento
• descargar

• carga

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carreg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cargar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cargar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cargar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cargar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus. Compare English charge and French charger. doublet of carricar.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈɡaɾ/ [kaɾˈɣ̞aɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: car‧gar

cargar (first-person singular present cargo, first-person singular preterite cargué, past participle cargado)

1. (transitive) to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage))

   Los estibadores se negaron a cargar el barco.

   The dock workers refused to load the ship.

2. (transitive) to load (to fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition)

   Apreté el gatillo, pero no pasó nada. Me había olvidado de cargar el arma.

   I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

3. (transitive) to load (to insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc)

   Ahora que ha cargado la película [en la cámara], está lista para comenzar a filmar/grabar.

   Now that you've loaded the film [into the camera], you're ready to start shooting.

4. (transitive, computing) to load (to load a software into the primary memory)

   Al abrir un programa por primera vez, primero tiene que cargar.

   When opening a program for first time, it has to load first.

   No me carga la página web.

   The website doesn't load for me.

5. (transitive) to carry (to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting)

   La persona que carga el equipaje de los viajeros en estaciones de tren y aeropuertos se llama maletero.

   The person who carries travelers' luggage at train stations and airports is called a porter.

6. (transitive) to charge (to replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet)

   Cargué la batería durante la noche.

   I charged the battery overnight.

   No te olvides de cargar el taladro.

   Don't forget to charge the drill.

   Cargo mi teléfono todas las noches.

   I charge my phone every night.

7. (transitive) to annoy, pester
8. (American football) to blitz
9. (reflexive, colloquial, vulgar) to smash, wreak, break, fuck up

   Synonyms: joder, estropear

   ¡Te cargaste la máquina!

   You fucked up my machine!

10. (reflexive, colloquial) to take down, top, kill

• “cargar”, 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

From Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus.

cargar

1. (transitive) to load
2. (transitive) to charge (a battery etc.)

• Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• cargadura
• car