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How do you say catch up in Spanish?

GDO :)

» catch up
A verb + adverb (draw level): I missed three weeks' classes, and it was a struggle to catch up perdí tres semanas de clase y me costó ponerme al día; we used to be market leaders, but now other countries are catching up antes éramos los líderes del mercado pero ahora otros países nos están alcanzando; to catch up with/on somebody/something: she had to catch up with o on the rest of the class/the work she'd missed tuvo que ponerse al nivel del resto de la clase/al día con el trabajo; I've got a lot of work to catch up on tengo que poner al día mucho trabajo atrasado; you go on ahead, I'll catch up with you later ustedes vayan delante, que yo ya los alcanzo; all those late nights eventually caught up on o with me todas esas trasnochadas finalmente pudieron más que yo; I called Sue to catch up with o on the latest gossip llamé a Sue para ponerme al día con los últimos chismes or al tanto de los últimos chismes; I need to catch up on my sleep tengo que recuperar el sueño perdido
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1 verb + object + adverb (draw level with) (BrE) ‹leader/group› alcanzar*
2 verb + object + adverb, verb + adverb + object (pick up) recoger*
C (trap, involve) to be/get caught up in something‹in barbed wire/thorns› estar*/quedar enganchado/atrapado en algo; ‹in excitement/enthusiasm› contagiarse de algo; I was completely caught up in my thoughts estaba totalmente absorto or ensimismado en mis pensamientos; I got caught up in the traffic me agarró or (especially Spain) me cogió el tráfico; she got caught up in the scandal se vio envuelta en el escándalo

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Originally Posted by Perikles (Post 123890)

GDO :)

» catch up
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you go on ahead, I'll catch up with you later ustedes vayan delante, que yo ya los alcanzo;

you go on ahead, I'll catch up with you later ustedes vayan delante que después los alcanzo

(with "ya" it should have been "in a minute")

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Originally Posted by Perikles (Post 123890)

all those late nights eventually caught up on o with me todas esas trasnochadas finalmente pudieron más que yo;

all those late nights eventually caught up on o with me todas esas trasnochadas finalmente pudieron más que yo:thinking::hmm:

tanto trasnochar finalmente me pasó factura/la cuenta
todas esas noches trasnochadas finalmente pudieron conmigo

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you go on ahead, I'll catch up with you later ustedes vayan delante, que yo ya los alcanzo;

That "ya" in that context is common in Spain. It may be like the Mexican "ahorita" or "ahorita mismo".

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all those late nights eventually caught up on o with me todas esas trasnochadas finalmente pudieron más que yo:thinking::hmm:

Also common in Spain.