absteniendo
Spanish, verb/absteˈnjendo/
absteniendo is spelled A-B-S-T-E-N-I-E-N-D-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Spanish, the 335,022nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Absteniendo is a Spanish verb meaning “only used in se ... absteniendo, syntactic variant of absteniéndose, gerund of abstenerse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Gerundio de abstener”.
What does absteniendo mean in English?
verb
- 1
only used in se ... absteniendo, syntactic variant of absteniéndose, gerund of abstenerse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Gerundio de abstener.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce absteniendo?
- /absteˈnjendo/
- [aβ̞s.t̪eˈnjẽn̪.d̪o]
- [aβ̞st̪eˈnjẽn̪d̪o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is absteniendo in Spanish?
absteniendo appears about once in every 95 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).