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apuntar

to aim

verb ah-poon-TAHR Less Common
Communication Speech

Also means

to note down

Usage Note

Apuntar is genuinely polysemous: it means to aim a weapon (apuntó con la pistola), to point at something, and also to jot something down (apunta el número). The reflexive apuntarse is very common colloquially for signing up or joining in: ¿te apuntas? = 'are you in?'.

Examples

"Apunta la dirección en el cuaderno."

Natural Translation

Write down the address in the notebook.

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