¿Por qué colgaste?
The English phrase "why did you hang up?" is translated into Spanish as ¿Por qué colgaste?
By adding the pronoun me, you can say ¿Por qué me colgaste?, which means "why did you hang up on me?"
How does it change in a sentence?
To use the formal 'you' (usted) instead of the informal 'tú', use the form ¿Por qué colgó usted?
Did you know?
- In Spanish, colgar can also be used to describe a computer or a website that has frozen or crashed.
- In some Latin American regions, instead of using colgar, people might use the slang colgarse to mean 'to loiter' or 'to waste time' somewhere.
- While colgar refers to the phone, the act of actually answering the phone is descolgar, which literally means 'to un-hang'.
Examples in context
- ¡Ay! ¿Por qué colgaste?Oh! Why did you hang up?
- ¡No entiendo por qué colgaste!I don't understand why you hung up!
- Estaba hablando contigo, ¿por qué colgaste?I was talking to you, why did you hang up?
Example conversation
Lucía calls Alejandro back after an abrupt disconnection.
- LucíaHola, Alejandro, ¿por qué colgaste?Hello, Alejandro, why did you hang up?
- AlejandroLo siento, Lucía, se quedó sin batería mi móvil.I'm sorry, Lucía, my phone ran out of battery.
- LucíaAh, entiendo, pensé que estabas enfadado.Ah, I see, I thought you were angry.
- AlejandroNo, para nada, solo fue un problema técnico.No, not at all, it was just a technical problem.
