Amontonar

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This is a discussion thread for the Daily Spanish Word (http://daily.tomisimo.org/) for December 29, 2008

amontonar - verb - to pile up, stack up, accumulate, collect, gather, heap up. Look up amontonar in the dictionary (http://www.tomisimo.org/dictionary/spanish_english/amontonar)

Junta toda la leña y amontónala allí atrás de la casa.
Gather up all the firewood and pile it over there behind the house.

[Jessica]

would this work for "collect" as in "I love to collect candy wrappers"? or is that a different word? I think it's a different word because this collect is different from the collect in here.

[Rusty]

For that verb, Jessica, use coleccionar or juntar.
Me gusta coleccionar envolturas de dulces.
Me gusta juntar envoltorios de dulces.