What does tocar mean?

ExpressionNeutro

to be somebody's turn — to be time for something

Nothing to do with touching. Tocar in this sense means something falls to you by turn, by luck or by obligation: me toca a mí, hoy toca limpiar, le tocó la lotería. It is one of the most useful verbs in everyday Spanish and it nearly always comes in the third person with a pronoun: me, te, le.

Hoy te toca a ti fregar los platos.
Not a request. A rota.

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