marchar

marchar (first-person singular indicative present marcho, past participle marcháu)

1. (transitive) leave (to depart from, end one's connection or affiliation with)
2. to leave (to depart)
3. to work (function)
4. to march

French marcher.

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈt͡ʃaɾ/

marchar (first-person singular present marcho, first-person singular preterite marchei, past participle marchado)

1. (intransitive) to leave, depart

   Marcho que teño que marchar. ― I'm leaving, because I have to go. (popular meme)

   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña‎^[1]:

     Epois vanse prevenindo, / e poñamonos enjerga, / para marchar a Madril / antes co imberno veña.

     So let's get ready / and stand up / for departing to Madrid / before the winter comes

2. (euphemistic, intransitive) to end; to pass away
3. (intransitive) to march

• marchar cantando

• marcha

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marchar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “marchar”, 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), “marchar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “marchar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marchar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from English march, French marcher, German marschieren, Italian marciare, Spanish marchar. Compare Esperanto marŝi, from French.

marchar (present tense marchas, past tense marchis, future tense marchos, imperative marchez, conditional marchus)

1. (intransitive) to walk, step, tread; to march

• marchetar (“to trip along”)

Borrowed from French marcher.

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marchar

1. to march

Borrowed from French marcher.

• Hyphenation: mar‧char

marchar (first-person singular present marcho, first-person singular preterite marchei, past participle marchado)

1. to march

For quotations using this term, see Citations:marchar.

• marcha

Borrowed from French marcher. Compare Catalan marxar.

• IPA^(key): /maɾˈt͡ʃaɾ/ [maɾˈt͡ʃaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: mar‧char

marchar (first-person singular present marcho, first-person singular preterite marché, past participle marchado)

1. (intransitive) to go, travel

   Synonyms: andar, ir

2. (intransitive) to march
3. (intransitive) to function, work, run

   Synonyms: funcionar, andar

4. (intransitive or reflexive) to leave

   Synonyms: irse, andarse, partir

   • 1987, Luis Miguel, Ahora Te Puedes Marchar:

     Me juras que has cambiado y piensas en volver / Si no supiste amar / Ahora te puedes marchar

     You swear to me you've changed and think of coming back / Since you couldn't love / You may now leave

• “marchar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16