Coger means ‘to take/catch’. It is a regular -er verb with a spelling change (g becomes j before a and o): cojo (present), cogí (preterite), cogido (past participle), cogiendo (gerund).
Coger in use
Cojo el autobús a las ochoI catch the bus at eight
Cogimos un taxi al aeropuertoWe took a taxi to the airport
Coge un paraguas, que va a lloverTake an umbrella, it's going to rain
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In Spain coger is the everyday verb for to take or to catch (coger el autobús, coger el teléfono). In much of Latin America it is vulgar, so people say tomar or agarrar instead.
More tenses
The other perfect tenses (haber + past participle) and the past subjunctive
The imperfect subjunctive has two forms: -ra (more common in speech) and -se (more formal; still heard in speech in Spain, mainly written in Latin America). Both are equally correct and interchangeable.
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