marcar el paso

Spanish

Verb

marcar el paso (first-person singular present marco el paso, first-person singular preterite marqué el paso, past participle marcado el paso)

1. (idiomatic) to keep time

Further reading

• “marcar el paso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10