Tıene Multiples usos algunos ejemplos dentro de las expresiones idiomaticas podrian ser: Echar a perder (en el sentido de estropear) to damage, to spoil Echar de menos ( extranar) to miss Echarse atras ( desdecir de algo o incumplir una promesa) ex: to brake a promise. Ir a echarse un rato (acostarse por un rato) sleep for a while I think this is not a nice expresion but you can listen it also from spanish speakers Followed by the preposition -a- means start an action: echar a correr. echar a reir, of course in this case i think there are better verbs to use as empezar a reir empezar a caminar etc etc Hope this be helpful for you.

Efectivamente _echar_ es un verbo muy utilizado. No te sabría decir una expresión favorita, pero me viene a le mente _échame un mano_ 'give me a hand'.

It basically means "to throw". In Spanish they often have a different way of looking at things than we do in English. I find it helpful to translate it literally to see how they see things. So they like to "throw" things. You can have a little fun with this and maybe even "throw" things back at them that they are not expecting.

It's a verb has a lot of means. I send you a page with some examples, i guess it can help you a lot to understand it. http://www.spaingrammar.com/verbo-echar.php

Esta es la conjugación de los principales tiempos: "Yo echo la casa por la ventana" Presente yo echo - tu echas - él, ella, usted echa - nosotros echamos - vosotros echáis - ellos, ellas echan. Pretérito Yo echaba - tu echabas - èl echaba - nosotros echábamos - vosotros echábais - ellos echában Futuro Yo echaré - tu echarás - él echará - nosotros echaremos - vosotros echaréis - ellos echarán