Usage Note
Becar is a transitive verb meaning to award a beca (scholarship or grant) to someone — the university beca outstanding students, the government becó a hundred researchers. The more common construction in everyday Spanish is the reflexive or passive: fue becado por el ministerio (he was awarded a scholarship by the ministry). The noun beca is far more frequent than the verb.
Examples
"La universidad becó a diez estudiantes destacados."
Natural Translation
The university granted scholarships to ten outstanding students.

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