No. 8,419 in Catalan
digerir
To digest.
In a sentence
Després d'un àpat copiós, és important donar temps al cos per digerir.
After a hearty meal, it's important to give the body time to digest.
Here, 'digerir' is used in its literal sense referring to the biological process of digesting food.
Necessito temps per digerir aquesta informació tan impactant.
I need time to digest this impactful information.
In this sentence, 'digerir' is used metaphorically to describe understanding and processing complex or surprising information.
Va costar digerir la notícia de la seva derrota després d'haver treballat tant.
It was hard to digest the news of their defeat after having worked so hard.
Here, 'digerir' is employed to describe emotionally or mentally coming to terms with difficult news or events.
Hear it in real podcasts
The recording above is a synthetic voice. Hear how people say “digerir” in actual Catalan podcasts.
Find “digerir” in podcastsLearn it from shows you like
LangTurbo plays Catalan podcasts with a transcript and the English under every line. Tap a word like this one and it tells you what it means right there. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
Catalan books and courses on Amazon (an affiliate link: a purchase through it supports this site).