adelante
Spanish, adverb
adelante is spelled A-D-E-L-A-N-T-E (8 letters) and appears 117 times per million words in written Spanish, the 737th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adelante is a Spanish adverb meaning “forward (toward the front)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adelantar. With an accent, adelanté is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of adelantar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Más allá o más arriba. En el frente, en la parte anterior (en oposición a la posterior)”.
What does adelante mean in English?
adverb
- 1
forward (toward the front)
- 2
forward (into the future)
interjection
- 1
come in
- 2
go ahead
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of adelantar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Más allá o más arriba. En el frente, en la parte anterior (en oposición a la posterior).
adverb: 1. En lo sucesivo, desde ahora y hacia el futuro.
interjection: 1. Exclamación para dar ánimo. 2. Voz para permitir la entrada o el paso.
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 adelante
- alante alternative colloquial
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to adelante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adelante in Spanish?
adelante appears 117 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).