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contestar / to answer
 
contestar  
A. -transitive verb
1. (=responder)   to answer,   reply
[+saludo]   to return
·contesté todas las preguntas
·I answered all the questions
·contestar al teléfono
·to answer the telephone
·contestar una carta
·to reply to a letter
·le pregunté que si vendría y contestó que nouní
·I asked him if he would come and he replied that he would
2. (=replicar)   to answer back
·no le contestes así a tu madre
·don't answer your mother back like that,   don't talk back to your mother like that
3. (law, legal)   to corroborate,   confirm
B. -intransitive verb
1. (=responder)   to answer,   reply
·abstenerse de contestar
·to make no reply
·no contestan
·there'noun no reply o answer
2. (politics)   to protest
 
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