contar

/konˈtaɾ/ · A1 · verb

to count

🧮📖 contar = count AND recount: tally numbers, or recount a story

From Latin computare (to reckon), the same root as English count and compute. English keeps the double sense too: you count numbers and you recount a tale. A bank teller counts; a storyteller tells.

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