aguantar
Spanish, verb/aɡwanˈtaɾ/
aguantar is spelled A-G-U-A-N-T-A-R (8 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Spanish, the 5,594th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aguantar is a Spanish verb meaning “to hold, withhold, hold back, retain (breath, urine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Mantenerse en una posición o actitud a pesar de contratiempos o embates”.
What does aguantar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to hold, withhold, hold back, retain (breath, urine)
Para nadar bajo el agua, uno tiene que ser capaz de aguantar la respiración.
- 2
to put up with, to tolerate or bear, to endure, to handle, to take, to stand
Esto no se puede aguantar.
- 3
to suck it up, deal with it
Te aguantas.
- 4
to hang on, to grasp
- 5
to hang on, to persevere, to last
- 6
to hold (a posture)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mantenerse en una posición o actitud a pesar de contratiempos o embates. 2. Resistir con fortaleza o vigor pesos, impulsos, trabajos, etc. 3. Adelantar el diestro el pie izquierdo, en la suerte de matar, para citar al toro, conservando esta postura hasta dar la estocada, y resistiendo cuanto le es posible la embestida, de la cual se libra con el movimiento de la muleta y con la huida.
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 aguantar
- aguanto first-person present singular
- aguanté first-person preterite singular
- aguantado participle past
- aguantando gerund
- aguantada feminine participle past
- aguantados masculine participle past
- aguantadas feminine participle past
- aguantas indicative informal present
- aguantás indicative informal present
- aguanta indicative present singular
- aguantamos first-person indicative plural
- aguantáis indicative plural present
- aguantan indicative plural present
- aguantaba first-person imperfect indicative
- aguantabas imperfect indicative second-person
- aguantábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- aguantabais imperfect indicative plural
- aguantaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aguantar?
- /aɡwanˈtaɾ/
- [a.ɣ̞wãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
- [aɣ̞wãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aguantar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aguantar in Spanish?
aguantar appears 13 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).