adelantar
Spanish, verb/adelanˈtaɾ/
adelantar is spelled A-D-E-L-A-N-T-A-R (9 letters) and appears 4.5 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,987th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adelantar is a Spanish verb meaning “to bring forward, advance, to move forward (in space or time)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pasar delante de otro. Realizar una acción antes que otro”.
What does adelantar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bring forward, advance, to move forward (in space or time)
- 2
to pay in advance
- 3
to outstrip, to outrun
- 4
to make progress
- 5
to overtake, to pass (to pass a more slowly moving object)
- 6
to move up, speed up (to make something happen faster or come sooner)
- 7
to fast forward (e.g. a film or recording)
- 8
to preempt
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pasar delante de otro. Realizar una acción antes que otro. 2. Apresurar, acelerar. 3. Anticipar la paga, salario, etc. 4. Aumentar, mejorar.
verb: 1. Hacer progresos, mejorar en cualquiera línea, como en las ciencias, en la salud, etc.
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.
Forms of adelantar
- adelanto first-person present singular
- adelanté first-person preterite singular
- adelantado participle past
- adelantando gerund
- adelantada feminine participle past
- adelantados masculine participle past
- adelantadas feminine participle past
- adelantas indicative informal present
- adelantás indicative informal present
- adelanta indicative present singular
- adelantamos first-person indicative plural
- adelantáis indicative plural present
- adelantan indicative plural present
- adelantaba first-person imperfect indicative
- adelantabas imperfect indicative second-person
- adelantábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- adelantabais imperfect indicative plural
- adelantaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adelantar?
- /adelanˈtaɾ/
- [a.ð̞e.lãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- [að̞elãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adelantar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adelantar in Spanish?
adelantar appears 4.5 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).