FCE PHRASAL VERBS

TURN

 Turn into: convertirse (They want to turn the offices into apartments.)

 Turn up: aparecer (Angela turned up late again)

 Turn out: resultar ser, acabar siendo.. (I’m sure it will all turn out well in
the end.)

 Turn on/off: encender y apagar (Can you turn on the heating, please?)

 Turn down: rechazar (The salary was not good, so I turn down the
promotion)

 Turn up/down: subir/bajar volumen (I need to focus, can you turn the
volume down?)

LOOK

 Look up: buscar información en una fuente (I’ll look that word up in a
dictionary)

 Look for: buscar (What are you looking for? -My classes, I can’t find them
anywhere)

 Look forward to (+ing): esperar con ganas (I look forward to celebrating

my bday)

 Look after: cuidar (Can you look after my plants while I am away on
holidays?)

 Look into: investigar (The police are looking into the case)

TAKE

 Take up: empezar a hacer, apuntarse a algo: (Cristina has taken up

Pilates)

 Take on: contratar = hire o employ (The company is taking people on)

 Take after: parecerse (You really take after your father)

 Take off: despegar (The plane will take off in 5 minutes, so fasten your
seatbelts)
  Take off: quitarse algo de ropa (Can you take your shoes off before you
come in?)

 Take in: asimilar, digerir (Don’t ask me to understand. That’s a lot to take
in)

CARRY

 Carry on: continuar (We will carry on with the concert unless it rains)

 Carry out: llevar a cabo (She carried out the project)

PICK

 Pick up: recoger (Can you pick me up at 3pm?)

 Pick on: fastidiar (Don’t pick on me, it wasn’t my fault)

RUN

 Run out of: quedarse sin algo (I need to go to the shop, we’ve run out of
milk)

 Run into: encontrarse con alguien = bump into (I ran into Maria the other
day, she looks amazing)

CUT

 Cut down on: reducir el consumo de algo … (We really need to cut down
on the amount of meat we eat)

CALL

 Call off: anular, cancelar : (The meeting was called off because of the rain)

KEEP

 Keep up with: mantenerse informado (You need to keep up with the news)

 Keep off: mantenerse alejado (keep you hands off – it is mine)

 Keep out: no dejar entrar, pasar (the coat keeps out the wind)

COME
  Come across: encontrarse con algo (He came across some old trousers in
the closet)

 Come up with: ocurrirse una idea o solución (She came up with the best
solution)

PLAN

 Plan ahead: planear con antelación (It is important to plan ahead your
holiday)

PUT

 Put on: engordar o ponerse algo de ropa (Which shoes are you going to
put on?)

 Put off: posponer (put off a meeting) (The meeting was put off because of
the rain)

 Put off: disuadir, echar para atrás (I wanted to buy that phone, but the
price put me off)

 Put someone up: hospedar (Can you put us up next week? we have
nowhere to go)

BRING

 Bring up: sacar un tema (I will bring the matter up at the next meeting.)

 Bring up: criar (I was brought up in a little village in the North of Spain)

SET

 Set up: fundar o crear una empresa (English Coaching was set up in 2018)

 Set off: partir, ponerse en marcha (We will set off very early to make sure
we get there on time)

GIVE

 Give up: rendirse o dejar de hacer algo (I gave up my job last year)

 Give away: regalar (I will give away some of the clothes I don’t use to the
charity)
  Give out: repartir, distribuir, entregar (Can you give the exams out,
please?)

 Give off: desprender, soltar (un olor, gas) (When they die, plants give
off gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.)

FIND/FIGURE

 Figure out: averiguar (I can’t figure out why he said that.)

 Find out: averiguar (We may never find out the truth about
what happened.)

CLOSE

 Close down: cerrar (quiebra)= (many shops are closing down because of
COVID-19)

WORK

 Work out: hacer deporte, entrenar (I work out twice a week)

 Work out: funcionar, ir bien (I hope your new job works out.)

GET

 Get by: ir tirando, apañárselas (How can he get by on so little money?)

 Get in/out: subir y bajar del coche (Get in the car, it is raining heavily)

 Get on/off: subir y bajar del transporte (bus, metro, tren, avión, etc.) (As
soon as I got off the bus and it started to rain)

 Get on with: llevarse bien (I don’t get on well with my sister)

 Get along with: llevarse bien (Angela and her sister don’t get along)

 Get rid of: deshacerse de (We got rid of our unwelcome guests by saying
we had to go to bed.)

FALL

 Fall out with: discutir (She left after falling out with her parents)

 Fall behind: quedarse atrás

(I’ve fallen behind on the mortgage payments.)
GO

 Go down with: contraer una enfermedad infecciosa (Many people have

gone down with COVID-19)

 Go up: subir (The price of the oil has gone up)

 Go down: bajar (The use of plastics is going down lately)

 Go on: continuar (Show must go on)

CATCH

 Catch on: ponerse a la moda: (Flare jeans are really catching on)

 Catch up: ponerse al día (We should grab a coffee some day and catch up)

MAKE:

 Make up: inventarse algo (Did you make that story up? I am sure she
didn’t do it)

 Make up for: compensar (We will make up for the classes we missed next
month)

SHOW

 Show off: fanfarronear (He’s always showing off to his classmates.)